Most Read This Week In 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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Bedside Manor (Tales from the Gas Station)

The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)

If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)

Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four (Tales from the Gas Station #4)

H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, #14)

A Conventional Boy (Laundry Files, #13; New Management, #4)

Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)

Monster Hunter Bloodlines (Monster Hunter International #8)

Gideon Falls, Book Two: The Eater of All Things

The Strange Tales of Oscar Zahn, Vol. 1: A Graphic Novel

The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

They Cling to the Hull (Horror Lurks Beneath, #2)

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files, #11; The New Management, #2)

Son of the Poison Rose (Kagen the Damned, #2)

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

Le dernier jour de Howard Phillips Lovecraft

Gideon Falls, Book One: The Legend of the Black Barn

Grim Investigations: Arkham Horror: The Collected Novellas, Vol. 2

Lair of the Crystal Fang (Arkham Horror #19)

Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2)

It Waits on the Top Floor (Horror Lurks Beneath, #1)

The Bootlegger's Dance (Arkham Horror #22)

A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

Dark Origins: Arkham Horror: The Collected Novellas, Vol. 1

The Ravening Deep: The Sanford Files (Arkham Horror #21)

The Haunter of the Dark: Collected Short Stories Volume 3

Song of the Tyrant Worm (The Worm and His Kings #3)

Thin Places (The Shadows of Miskatonic #2)

Herald of Ruin: The Sanford Files (Arkham Horror)

In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft

The Secret Life of Insects and Other Stories

My Name Isn't Paul: A Cosmic Horror Novella

The Forbidden Visions of Lucius Galloway: An Arkham Horror Novel (The Drowned City)

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“ By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river's edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the King of Ilek-Vad comes from his far realm on the twilight sea once a year in a golden palanquin to pray to the god of Oukranos, who sang to him in youth when he dwelt in a cottage by its banks. All of jasper is that temple, and covering an acre of ground with its walls and courts, its seven pinnacled towers, and its inner shrine where the river enters through hi ...more ”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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“ I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. ”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider

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