I still haven't read any Wagner, will have to dig some up sometime....

My favorites:

- HPL:  "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow Out of Time" and "The Colour Out of Space" and "The Dunwich Horror" and "The Silver Key" are favorites
- REH:  Among his Conan tales, I've enjoyed "The Tower of the Elephant" and "Queen of the Black Coast" and "The Devil in Iron" (all of them, really ;) ), as well as his essay,  "The Hyborian Age"
- CAS:  also too many to choose from, but these stand out always to me:  "A Rendezvous in Averoigne" and "The Maze Of Maâl Dweb" and "The Tale of Satampra Zeiros" (and its prequel, "The Theft of the Thirty-Nine Girdles")
- FL:  "The Jewels in the Forest"  or "The Seven Black Priests"  or "Thieves' House" (again, all of them), and "The Enchantress of Sylaire" and....
- AEM:  I haven't read much of him yet, still working on that....

WRT Frank Herbert,  while I love Dune and its sequels, I also love his Pandora and Jorge X. McKee stories, too.

Last edited by grodog (2/15/2015 2:57 pm)

it'd be difficult for me to make a narrow list of favorites so instead here are two of the books that I read in the 7th grade right before finding D&D:
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court - Twain
Dragonriders of PERN - McCaffrey