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"

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)

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Quotes Tagged “Lovecraftian”

“ Well did the traveler know those garden lands that lie betwixt the wood of the Cerenerian Sea, and blithely did he follow the singing river Oukranos that marked his course. The sun rose higher over gentle slopes of grove and lawn, and heightened the colors of the thousand flowers that starred each knoll and dingle. A blessed haze lies upon all this region, wherein is held a little more of the sunlight than other places hold, and a little more of the summer's humming music of birds and bees; so t ...more ”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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“ This is Lovecraft's best terrible story. It is so artificial...and so overblown...and so ludicrous...that it slithers-through tiramisu-rich prose that might as well be heavy metal lyrics ("a wolf-fanged ghost that rode the midnight lightning")-all the way to the summit of high camp. ...more ”
― Kenneth Hite, Tour de Lovecraft - The Tales

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