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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My Name Isn't Paul
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Moonflow
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The Night That Finds Us All
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These Lifeless Things
Terminus (Threshold, #4)
The Faceless Thing We Adore
The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)
The Call of Cthulhu
At the Mountains of Madness
The Fisherman
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Ballad of Black Tom
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Dagon
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
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The Dunwich Horror
The Colour Out of Space
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Robert E. Howard
With a detached feeling he watched, as a man might watch a play; immersed in a feeling of overpowering unreality, the Cimmerian was no longer sure of his own identity; he only knew that he was looking upon the external evidence of the unseen play of vast Outer forces, beyond his understanding.
Robert E. Howard, The Tower of the Elephant (Conan, #3)

H.P. Lovecraft
Mankind was not absolutely alone among the conscious things of earth, for shapes came out of the dark to visit the faithful few.
H. P. Lovecraft

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