Lovecraftian

Lovecraftian horror is a sub-genre of horror fiction which emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown (in some cases, unknowable). It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Lovecraft refined this style of storytelling into his own mythos that involved a set of supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements. His work was inspired by and similar to previous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood and Lord Dunsany. The hallmark of Lovecraft's work is cosmicism: the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in co ...more

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H.P. Lovecraft
“ The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely. ...more ”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Pickman's Model

H.P. Lovecraft
“ The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable. ”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters III: 1929-1931

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