Lovecraft's poetry is quite good, and it is much more under control than his fiction, as I guess would be expected, since poetic forms impose certain rules on an author. His sonnet collection, "Fungi from Yuggoth", is memorable, and much less silly than the title would indicate. The themes between sonnets are related, but it is not a story told in the form of 36 sonnets, so anyone with a fear of long poems need not shy away. ( )