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

Most Read This Week Tagged "Lovecraftian"

Bedside Manor (Tales from the Gas Station)

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

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

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

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

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

H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, #14)

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

The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

Gideon Falls, Book Two: The Eater of All Things

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

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

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

The Call of Cthulhu and Dagon: A Graphic Novel (Graphic Classics)

Monster Hunter Bloodlines (Monster Hunter International #8)

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

Le dernier jour de Howard Phillips Lovecraft

A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors

The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)

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

GHOST GIRL ゴーストガール 4 (Ghost Reaper Girl, #4)

GHOST GIRL ゴーストガール 3 (Ghost Reaper Girl, #3)

Lair of the Crystal Fang (Arkham Horror #19)

GHOST GIRL ゴーストガール 2 (Ghost Reaper Girl, #2)

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

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

Les Montagnes hallucinées et autres récits d'exploration

My Name Isn't Paul: A Cosmic Horror Novella

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Quotes Tagged “Lovecraftian”

“ The measurements of space and time, the photographs of far stars and of points of light which proved to be composed of thousands of stars, filled him with an awe which felt like the edge of a delicious panic. ”
― Ramsey Campbell, Midnight Sun

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“ The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. ”
― H.P. Lovecraft

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