Good heavens, Lovecraft a dud? Granted, half of his stories are awful, but the other half are divine.
"Resume With Monsters" reminds me of a book I am dying to get--viz. "Scream for Jeeves" by Peter Cannon, in which Bertie Wooster meets Cthulhu. Others have been fascinated with the subject as well; here's a lovely bit by Dave Langford:

`In the spring, Jeeves, a livelier iris gleams upon the burnished dove.'
`So I have been informed, sir.'
`Right ho! Then bring me my whangee, my yellowest shoes, and the old green Homburg. I'm going into the Park to do nameless, blasphemous rites descended from a shuddering and unhallowed tradition, amid shrieking, slithering, torrential shadows of red viscous madness chasing one another through endless, ensanguined corridors of purple fulgurous sky ... forests of monstrous overnourished oaks with serpent roots twisting and sucking unnameable juices from an earth verminous with millions of cannibal devils ... insane lightning over malignant ivied walls and demon arcades choked with fungous vegetation ... and then a snifter at the Drones, what?'
`I fancy not, sir. The Dark Priestess of the Esoteric Order of Dagon is in the sitting-room and desires to speak to you.'
`Iä! Iä! Aunt Agatha!'

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I agree about Crown of Shadows. If I wasn't addicted to the series I might have given up on it- but as the fan I am the very idea should be unthinkable!
My sister worships Lovecraft, but I can't get into his writing. Maybe I just don't like gore.