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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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft

The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft

The Shadow over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft

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100 books — 1 voter

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Quotes Tagged “Lovecraftian”

“ How can this be real?” I whispered. “I mean you... you... where you come from. Your world. It is so beyond everything I've ever known. And you would... you would take me to the Pumpkin Ball?” “Try and stop me. ...more ”
― Serra Elinsen, Awoken

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“ The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window! ”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon et autres nouvelles de terreur

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