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

New Releases Tagged "Lovecraftian"

My Name Isn't Paul
The Night That Finds Us All
Unbroken (Rath & Rune, #4)
There Is No Antimemetics Division
Ascension
Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)
All the Fiends of Hell
The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)
Moonflow
If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)
The Backbone of the World
The Night That Finds Us All
The Pale House Devil (Discreet Eliminators, #1)
H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth
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
Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
Dagon
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
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Chartreuse Horror
15 books — 4 voters
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Cosmic & Lovecraftian Horror
231 books — 95 voters

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Space Horror
326 books — 292 voters
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Surreal Horror
84 books — 76 voters



Hailey Piper
She’s part of the nothing now.” Hot tears flooded Monique’s cheeks. She tried to swallow the burning lump in her throat. “We fed her to the empty place.” “No, No Lady smiled wide and shook her head. “Most of the universe is empty. We feel stretches of the worm, and she’s with him now, and full and infinatellsetsfree-” Her words smashed together and thinned like Phoebe across time, becoming nothing.
Hailey Piper, The Worm and His Kings

H.P. Lovecraft
Something was creeping and creeping and waiting to be seen and felt and heard.
H.P. Lovecraft

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