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

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

The Pale House Devil (Discreet Eliminators, #1)

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

H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

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

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

Monster Hunter Bloodlines (Monster Hunter International #8)

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

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

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors

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

Escape from the Center of the Earth (Center of the Earth, #3)

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

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

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

Cathedral of Bones: An Epic Dark Fantasy Adventure with Unlikely Heroes for Children (Ages 8-12)

The Void Ascendant (Beneath the Rising, #3)

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

A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

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

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

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

Le dernier jour de Howard Phillips Lovecraft

A Broken Darkness (Beneath the Rising, #2)

Les Montagnes hallucinées et autres récits d'exploration

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

Thin Places (The Shadows of Miskatonic #2)

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

Ancient Sorceries: a collection of stories

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

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

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Quotes Tagged “Lovecraftian”

“ There are black zones of shadow close to our daily paths, and now and then some evil soul breaks a passage through. ”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Thing on the Doorstep

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― H.P. Lovecraft

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