Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( – ) was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, who is now widely recognized as one of the most influential and widely-read authors of popular fiction of all time.
Lovecraft's early political views were conservative and traditionalist; additionally, he held a number of racist views for much of his adult life. Following the Great Depression, Lovecraft's political views became more socialist while still remaining elitist and aristocratic.
This is the online compendium of information about the Cthulhu Mythos, the 1920s cosmic horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, and the ongoing growth of the Mythos in literature and popular culture.
Dedicated to Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the 20th century master of weird fiction, who died in 1937.
H.P. Lovecraft, American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror. He made his living as a ghostwriter and rewrite man and spent most of his life in seclusion and poverty.
The Colour Out of Space was Lovecraft's favorite tale and shares the story of the "blasted heath" a patch of land where nothing grows or lives caused by a mysterious meteorite that lands on a remote farm deep in the forests of Arkham.
Discover the legacy and works of H.P. Lovecraft, a pioneer in horror fiction.
Lovecraft's complete poetry is collected in S.T. Joshi (ed), The Ancient Track: Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft (NY: Hippocampus Press, 2013. (An earlier, less complete version was published by Night Shade Books in 2001).
Horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft wrote short stories, novels and novellas, including 'The Call of Cthulhu' and 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.'