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H. P. Lovecraft

Lifespan
1890 – 1937
Nationality
American
Active
1922 – 1941
Works held
21

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) transformed horror by shifting its terror from the supernatural to the cosmic, a universe vast, indifferent and full of things that shatter the human mind that glimpses them. Little known in his lifetime and published mostly in Weird Tales, he built the loose 'Cthulhu Mythos' that later writers have expanded ever since. His influence on horror, fantasy and science fiction is out of all proportion to his modest lifetime readership.

The works

  1. 1941
    Cover of The case of Charles Dexter Ward The case of Charles Dexter Ward
  2. 1939
    Cover of Cool air Cool air Cover of Medusa's coil Medusa's coil
  3. 1937
    Cover of The horror in the burying-ground The horror in the burying-ground Cover of The thing on the door-step The thing on the door-step
  4. 1936
    Cover of At the mountains of madness At the mountains of madness Cover of The haunter of the dark The haunter of the dark Cover of The shadow over Innsmouth The shadow over Innsmouth
  5. 1935
    Cover of The quest of Iranon The quest of Iranon
  6. 1934
    Cover of Through the gates of the silver key Through the gates of the silver key
  7. 1932
    Cover of The trap The trap
  8. 1929
    Cover of The Dunwich horror The Dunwich horror Cover of The curse of Yig The curse of Yig
  9. 1928
    Cover of The call of Cthulhu The call of Cthulhu T The call of Cthulhu
  10. 1927
    Cover of The colour out of space The colour out of space Cover of The horror at Red Hook The horror at Red Hook
  11. 1926
    Cover of He He Cover of The silver key The silver key
  12. 1925
    Cover of The festival The festival
  13. 1922
    Cover of The lurking fear The lurking fear

Wrote across

1920s1930s1940s

Recurring themes

HorrorFantasyFirst ContactPsychic PowersHard SFLost World

Kindred authors shared themes

Edmond HamiltonHenry KuttnerNelson S. BondPhilip K. DickRobert Moore WilliamsStephen MarloweAlan Edward NourseAlgis Budrys

Contemporaries writing in the same era

VariousNelson S. BondGeorge O. SmithRay CummingsRobert E. HowardEdmond HamiltonEdgar Rice BurroughsE. E. SmithLeigh BrackettRay Bradbury

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