I would add the third Gor book, 'Priest-Kings of Gor' to the not awful Gor list. At least I thought so. The rest of the series I agree, I couldn't read them even when I was in my early twenties and read smut, well, sometimes...
I agree about Lovecraft too. I like Lumley and Ramsey better for Mythos fiction. CAS and Howard too. I am sort of an apostate when it comes to CoC, using more of a 'Lumley flavor' than the recommended 'Lovecraftian' we-are-doomed-to-go-crazy-and-die flavor. It's still very scary, or so I've been told by my players.
For bad fantasy, a couple of writers that get my vote are the Tolkien rip-off artists like Brooks and McKiernan. And Robert Jordan trying to write Conan stories. Or anything else.
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