An American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.
Comment by Russell Hoban from The Guardian:
The main thing about HP Lovecraft is his too-muchness; he never uses three adjectives when five will do, but he writes words that haunt the memory: "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." My recall of the multiplication table is shaky but those words disquiet me today as freshly as when I first read them.
Where did dead Cthulhu come from? Why did he rise up from the murky depths of Lovecraft's mental ocean? I say it's because there is a need for him and the rest of the maestro's monsters. Why is there such an appetite, such a hunger for scary stories and films? I think there is a primal horror in us. From where? From the Big Bang when Something came out of Nothing? From the nothingness we must become at life's end? I don't know, but I know it's there and we like to dress it up with a bolt through its neck or a black rubber alien suit; or as Cthulhu. Get a load of this: "A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings", with elements of "an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", "but it was the general outline of the whole that made it most shockingly frightful". Close your eyes and try to imagine this creature of non-Darwinian evolution. Just the look of this bozo is already a major horror, and we're not even into the story yet. While he's dead and dreaming in his house at R'lyeh ("Dun Foamin"?) his Cthulhuvibes are spreading worldwide and causing strange rites and observances here and there. Lovecraft is not everybody's mug of Ovaltine but I have always found him horribly cosy.
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
9 editions - first published in 1965 -
The lurker at the threshold
9 editions - first published in 1945 -
Dagon, and other macabre tales
8 editions - first published in 1965 -
At the Mountains of Madness: and other tales of terror
8 editions - first published in 1968 Borrow -
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
7 editions - first published in 1955 -
Novels: bloodcurdling tales of horror and the macabre
7 editions - first published in 1982 Borrow -
Collected Essays of H. P. Lovecraft
6 editions - first published in 2005 -
Supernatural horror in literature
6 editions - first published in 1945 -
H.P. Lovecraft
6 editions - first published in 1987 -
Selected letters
4 editions - first published in 1965 -
The survivor and others
4 editions - first published in 1957 -
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
4 editions - first published in 1970 -
The Dunwich Horror
4 editions - first published in 1963 Borrow -
The colour out of space: and others
4 editions - first published in 1967 Borrow -
Fungi from Yuggoth
3 editions - first published in 1983 -
Dagon: and other macabre tales
3 editions - first published in 1967 -
The H.P. Lovecraft omnibus
3 editions - first published in 1985 -
At the mountains of madness, and other novels
3 editions - first published in 1964 -
The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Grotesque Visions
3 editions - first published in 1985 -
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
3 editions - first published in 1973 Borrow -
The Lurking Fear & Other
2 editions - first published in 1973 -
Necronomicon
2 editions - first published in 2008 -
The Lovecraft Letters Vol 1: Mysteries of Time & Spirit
2 editions - first published in 2002 -
The Tomb: and other tales
2 editions - first published in 1970 -
The tomb and other tales
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
The shadow out of time: and other tales of horror
2 editions - first published in 1968 -
The Xothic Legend Cycle: The Complete Mythos Fiction of Lin Carter (Fiction Series)
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
Viajes Al Otro Mundo: (Ciclo De Aventuras Oniricas De Randolph Carter) (El Libro De Bolsillo)
2 editions - first published in 1981 -
The Dark Worlds Of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 2
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
Par-delà le mur du sommeil
2 editions - first published in 1991 -
Lovecraft at last
2 editions - first published in 1975 -
The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft
2 editions - first published in 2001 -
THE DOOM THAT CAME TO SARNATH: Imprisoned with the Pharoahs; The Other Gods; The Tree; The Tomb; Polaris; Beyond the Wall of Sleep; Memory; What the Moon Brings; Nyarlathotep; Ex Oblivione; The Cats of Ulthar; Hypnos; Nathicana; From Beyond; The Festival
2 editions - first published in 1971 -
Collected poems: Illus. by Frank Utpatel.
2 editions - first published in 1963 -
The Dark Worlds Of H. P. Lovecraft Volume 4
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
El Caso de Charles Dexter Ward
2 editions - first published in 1984 -
El Color Que Cayo del Cielo
2 editions - first published in 1994 -
HORROR IN THE MUSEUM
2 editions - first published in 1976 -
Le masque de Cthulhu
2 editions - first published in 1972 -
En Las Montanas de La Locura: Orden y caos III (Lovecraft)
2 editions - first published in 2000 -
The Dark Worlds Of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 1
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
The Dark Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 3
2 editions - first published in 2006 -
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos: Golden Anniversary Anthology
2 editions - first published in 1988 -
Selected letters 1925-1929
2 editions - first published in 1968 -
Cuentos de Terror - Antologia
2 editions - first published in 1994 -
The shadow over Innsmouth
2 editions - first published in 1936 -
Watchers out of time
2 editions - first published in 1996 -
At the mountains of madness, and other tales of terror
2 editions - first published in 1968 -
Tales of the Unnatural
2 editions - first published in 1993 -
Los mitos de cthulhu
2 editions - first published in 1969 -
The annotated H.P. Lovecraft
2 editions - first published in 1997 -
The Transition of H.P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Démons et merveilles
1 edition - first published in 2002 -
Shuttered Room Othr T
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Caso de Charles Dexter Ward, El
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Mitos de Cthulhu, Los
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Die Literatur der Angst. Zur Geschichte der Phantastik
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
La quête onirique de Kadath l'inconnue
1 edition - first published in 1996 -
Night océan et autres nouvelles
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
Live:May 11 1968
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
Der Fall Charles Dexter Ward. Eine Horrorgeschichte. ( Phantastische Bibliothek, 260)
1 edition - first published in 1990 -
Je suis d'ailleurs
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
Die Traumsuche nach dem unbekannten Kadeth
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Der Flüsterer im Dunkeln. Eine Horrorgeschichte
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
The Dark Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 5
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
History of the Necronomicon
1 edition - first published in 1989 -
Polaris (Lovecraft)
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Lovecraft
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Collected essays
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
The Battle That Ended the Century
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Color Out of Space
1 edition - first published in 1982 -
La Couleur tombée du ciel
1 edition - first published in 2000 -
At the mountains of madness and other novels of terror: Selected and with an introd. by August Derleth.
1 edition - first published in 1974 -
LA Llamada De Cthulhu Y Otro Relato
1 edition - first published in 1999 -
The Outsider, and Others
1 edition - first published in 1939 -
Relatos De Terror Ii : El Clerigo Maligno / Tales of Terror II: El Clerigo Maligno (Lovecraft)
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
1st Writings: The Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner
1 edition - first published in 1986 -
El Necronomicon (Tabla de Esmeralda)
1 edition - first published in 1997 -
Le Rôdeur devant le seuil
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
Herbert West Reanimator
1 edition - first published in 1985 -
The Dark Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 7
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
El Abismo En El Tiempo
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
El Lazo De Meduza/el Hombre De Piedra/cosmos En Colapso (Colaboraciones)
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
El museo de los horrores
1 edition - first published in 2001 -
H. P. Lovecraft Letters to Robert Bloch: Supplement
1 edition - first published in 1993 -
Miscellaneous writings
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Ciclo Randolph Carter Ii: La Busqueda Onirica De La Desconocida Kadath (Lovecraft)
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Clerigo Malvado Y Otros Relatos
1 edition - first published in 1984 -
O fortunate Floridian: H.P. Lovecraft's letters to R.H. Barlow
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
The Doom That Came to Sarnath (A Del Rey Book)
1 edition - first published in 1991 -
Horror de Dunwich, El
1 edition - first published in 1994 -
Colaboraciones I: El Caos Reptante (Lovecraft)
1 edition - first published in 2003 -
The Dark Worlds of H. P. Lovecraft, Volume 6
1 edition - first published in 2007 -
A Collection Of Lovecraft
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
Sombra Sobre Innsmuth
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
At the Mountains of Madness / The Competitor
1 edition - first published in 1995 -
Commonplace Book
1 edition - first published in 1987 -
Mitos De Cthulhu Iii: El Color De Fuerade Espacio/la Noche Del Oceano/fragmento (Lovecraft)
1 edition - first published in 2004 -
L'appel de cthulhu
1 edition - first published in 2000
H. P. Lovecraft
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