Who is H.P. Lovecraft

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Meet the Creator of Cthulhu

H.P. Lovecraft created one of the scariest and most amazing horror mythology with his stories concerning Cthulhu, the Elder Ones, and others.

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Why do I admire H.P. Lovecraft? 

Horror rarely has an effect on me, I just don't find most horror writers all that scary. However the first time I read At the Mountains of Madness I had nightmares. Real vivid nightmares of being chased through an icy cave by some unseen creature that I'm sure was a Shoggoth.

I've heard criticism of how rarely and sparsely Lovecraft describes the entities in his writing, but I think that's part of what makes it so scary. He gives you just enough to get your mind working and no description will ever be as frightening as what your own mind creates. Especially when those entities are so vastly stranger and more powerful than man that should they choose to strike at us mankind would not stand a chance of survival.

H.P. Lovecraft at a Glance 

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 ? March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christian humanism.H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture by Don G. Smith, 2005, ISBN 078642091X,page 85, "Lovecraft never had much good to say about families either" Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.

Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, who together with Edgar Allan Poe has exerted "an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction". Stephen King has called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."King quoted on front cover of 1982 paperback edition of The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre published by Del Rey Books with introduction by Robert Bloch. Other sources quote King as calling this judgement of Lovecraft "undeniable"[http://www.abebooks.com/docs/Fantasy/lovecraft.shtml] or "beyond doubt."[http://ebooks.ebookmall.com/ebook/102153-ebook.htm]

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Lovecraft Links

The H.P. Lovecraft Archive
Dedicated to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the 20th century master of weird fiction, who died in 1937.
The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society
The HP Lovecraft Historical Society celebrates Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by producing movies, audio CDs, live action gaming, and other curiosities.
The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Cosmic Horror & Weird Tales
The H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival promotes the works of H.P. Lovecraft, literary horror, and weird tales through the cinematic adaptations by professional filmmakers.
Miskatonic University
The Miskatonic University Homepage: an overview of academic programs, campus life, resources, news and events, with extensive links to other web sites located throughout the University.
The Temple of Dagon
The Temple of Dagon - H.P. Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos
the Complete works of H. P. Lovecraft
the complete works of H. P. Lovecraft the complete text to the original Gothic Novel
Scriptorium - H.P. Lovecraft
The Scriptorium is an index of experimental twentieth-century authors, and this page features H.P. Lovecraft.
Voices in the Dark - H. P. Lovecraft
Free H.P. Lovecraft audio books.

Great H.P. Lovecraft stuff from Amazon 

THE NEW LOVECRAFT COLLECTOR 22

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WEIRD TALES - Volume 22, number 1 - July 1933: The Dreams in the Witch House; Ubbo Sathla; The Man on the Ground; The Hand of Glory; Voodoo Song; The Fire Creatures; The Thing from the Grave; The Horror in the Museum; Golden Blood; Pirates Cave; Green Tea

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