H.P. Lovecraft

I recently purchased a monster sized book with well over 100 short/medium length stories written by H.P. Lovecraft. I enjoy the thriller mystery writing style, but I do tend to find his work quite dry. I recently read a short story that was noted as being one of his 'comical thrillers'. On one hand I can see how the ending would be perceived as comical, but on the other hand it was still dry.
I have just started reading The Call of the Cthulhu. It has such a massive internet fan-base that it has always made me curious as to what it was all about. This story has been multiply noted to be one of the best horror stories ever written. Hopefully I can offer a decent review when I am finished.

They worshipped, so they said, the Great Old Ones who lived ages before there were any men, and who came to the young world out of the sky. Those Old Ones were gone now, inside the earth and under the sea; but their dead bodies had told their secrets in dreams to the first men, who formed a cult which had never died...hidden in distant wastes and dark places all over the world until the time when the great priest Cthulhu, from his dark house in the mighty city of R'lyeh under the waters, should rise and bring the earth again beneath his sway. Some day he would call, when the stars were ready, and the secret cult would always be waiting to liberate him.^[13]
^ Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", p. 139.