H.P. Lovecraft

Born

in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States

August 20, 1890

Died

March 15, 1937

Website

http://www.hplovecraft.com/

Genre

Horror, Weird Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Chambers, Clark Ashton Smith, Arthur Machen, L ...more

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and 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 fictions 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 Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mir ...more

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H.P. Lovecraft's Books

Average rating: 4.12 · 337,965 ratings · 15,270 reviews · 1,563 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth (Editor), Robert Bloch (Introduction) 4.31 avg rating — 25,309 ratings — published 1963 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 4.26 avg rating — 25,524 ratings — published 1938 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror 4.25 avg rating — 19,131 ratings — published 1931 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of Cthulhu 4.05 avg rating — 19,591 ratings — published 1928 — 172 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor), China Miéville (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 3.94 avg rating — 18,030 ratings — published 1936 — 236 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward 4.20 avg rating — 10,677 ratings — published 1941 — 144 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft 4.33 avg rating — 9,969 ratings — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 4.31 avg rating — 8,216 ratings — published 1996 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, Les Edwards (Illustrator), Stephen Jones (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 8,702 ratings — published 1930 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 4.30 avg rating — 7,335 ratings — published 1937 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft Collected Short Stories (4 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft
4.10 avg rating — 7,569 ratings

J'ai Lu (7 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft, Jean-Paul Mourlon (Traduction)
4.00 avg rating — 7,502 ratings

Οι εκπληκτικοί κόσμοι του H.P. Lovecraft (10 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft, Γιώργος Μπαλάνος (Translator)
4.04 avg rating — 4,293 ratings

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (2 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth (editor), Robert Bloch, J. Ramsey Campbell, Brian Lumley, James Wade, Colin Wilson, Ramsey Campbell
4.43 avg rating — 3,562 ratings

Mitos de Cthulhu (1 book)
by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor), Kenneth Sterling, Anna Helen Crofts, T.E.D. Klein, Raymond Bayless (Illustrator)
4.25 avg rating — 3,684 ratings

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Quotes by H.P. Lovecraft

“The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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“Pleasure to me is wonder—the unexplored, the unexpected, the thing that is hidden and the changeless thing that lurks behind superficial mutability.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft

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Flaming Dove by Daniel Arenson

6 votes 35.3%

17 total votes

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