Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.

Writer Richard L. Tierney later applied the term " Derleth Mythos " to distinguish between Lovecraft's works and Derleth's later stories.

Lovecraft's works are ruled by several distinct pantheons of deities ( actually aliens who are worshipped by humans as deities ) who are either indifferent or actively hostile to humanity.

This group of writers became known as the " Lovecraft Circle ", since they all freely borrowed elements of Lovecraft's stories – the mysterious books with disturbing names, the pantheon of ancient alien entities, such as Cthulhu and Azathoth, and eldritch places, such as the New England town of Arkham and its Miskatonic University – for use in their own works with Lovecraft's encouragement.

Many later figures were influenced by Lovecraft's works, including author and artist Clive Barker, prolific horror writer Stephen King, comics writers Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and Mike Mignola, film directors John Carpenter, Stuart Gordon, and Guillermo Del Toro, horror manga artist Junji Ito, and artist H. R. Giger.

Other notable works with Lovecraft as a character include Richard Lupoff's Lovecraft's Book ( 1985 ), H. P.

Penguin Classics has at present issued three volumes of Lovecraft's works: The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories, The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories, and most recently The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories.

There is controversy over the copyright status of many of Lovecraft's works, especially his later works.

All works published before 1923 are public domain in the U. S. However, there is some disagreement over who exactly owns or owned the copyrights and whether the copyrights apply to the majority of Lovecraft's works published post-1923.

Questions center over whether copyrights for Lovecraft's works were ever renewed under the terms of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 for works created prior to January 1, 1978.

Lovecraft protégés and part owners of Arkham House, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, often claimed copyrights over Lovecraft's works.

S. T. Joshi concludes in his biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, that Derleth's claims are " almost certainly fictitious " and that most of Lovecraft's works published in the amateur press are most likely now in the public domain.

The copyright for Lovecraft's works would have been inherited by the only surviving heir of his 1912 will: Lovecraft's aunt, Annie Gamwell.

Morrish and Lewis then signed a document, sometimes referred to as the Morrish-Lewis gift, permitting Arkham House to republish Lovecraft's works but retaining the copyrights for themselves.

Regardless of the legal disagreements surrounding Lovecraft's works, Lovecraft himself was extremely generous with his own works and actively encouraged others to borrow ideas from his stories, particularly with regard to his Cthulhu mythos.

* Other significant Lovecraft-related works are An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia by Joshi and David S. Schulz ; Lovecraft's Library: A Catalogue ( a meticulous listing of many of the books in Lovecraft's now scattered library ), by Joshi ; Lovecraft at Last, an account by Willis Conover of his teenage correspondence with Lovecraft ; Joshi's A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H. P. Lovecraft.

Though their works could not be properly considered zombie fiction, the supernatural tales of Bierce and Poe would prove influential on later writers such as H. P. Lovecraft, by Lovecraft's own admission.

" There are three primary eras of the original ( BRP ) game: the 1920s, the setting of many of Lovecraft's stories ; the 1890s Gaslight supplements, a blend of occult and Holmesian mystery and mostly set in England ; and modern conspiracy ( Cthulhu Now ).

Price suggests that the basis of Derleth's systemization are found in Lovecraft, stating: " Was Derleth's use of the rubric ' Elder Gods ' so alien to Lovecraft's in At the Mountains of Madness?

* Some of Lovecraft's writings are annotated with footnotes or endnotes.

Lovecraft's celebrated short story, The Call of Cthulhu ( 1928 ), the titular entity emerges from the vast and ancient alien city of R ' lyeh, which is described in terms of " non-Euclidean geometry " and contains angles which are " all wrong " ( appearing acute but behaving as if obtuse, for example ) and planes which could be horizontal or slanted depending on how the observer looks at them.

( Arkham House's volumes of Lovecraft's letters are highly abridged ; unabridged volumes of Lovecraft's letters to individual correspondents are progressively being issued by Hippocampus Press ).

The Mi-Go are one of the main enemies of humanity in the role-playing game CthulhuTech, which combines Lovecraft's fiction with tropes and themes from mecha anime.

They are mentioned in many of Lovecraft's stories, including At the Mountains of Madness ( 1936 ), The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ( 1926 ), " The Other Gods " ( 1933 ), and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

The Pnakotic Manuscripts are noteworthy for being the first of Lovecraft's fictional arcane books.

Nightgaunts ( also Night-Gaunt or night-gaunt ) are a fictional race in the Cthulhu Mythos and is also part of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

Brian Lumley instead associated them with the creature Yibb-Tstll, noting that they " suckle " at the creature's " black breasts "-suggesting that they possess a mouth, which would seem to contradict Lovecraft's description of them as " faceless ", although it is possible that the creature's mouths are somehow concealed, or that Lumley was speaking metaphorically.

The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, a group whose works are heavily inspired by Lovecraft's writings, includes a song referencing the town, ' Going Down to Dunwich '.

Lovecraft scholar Don G. Smith claims that, of the scenes that are derived from Lovecraft's work, the " blasted heath doesn't live up to Lovecraft's description " and asserts that overall the film does not successfully capture Lovecraft's intent to " play ... with the idea of an alien life form completely different from anything humans can imagine ".

The setting of Call of Cthulhu is a darker version of our world, based on H. P. Lovecraft's observation ( from his short essay, Supernatural Horror in Literature ) that " The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

In 2005 the prestigious Library of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by Peter Straub, and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the " definitive edition " of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness ( also including " Supernatural Horror in Literature ").

Lovecraft's essay " Supernatural Horror in Literature ", first published in 1927, is a historical survey of horror literature available with endnotes as The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature.

Her first mention under Lovecraft's byline was in The Dunwich Horror ( 1928 ), where a quote from the Necronomicon discussing the Old Ones breaks into an exclamation of " Iä!

The Black Goat may be the personification of Pan, since Lovecraft was influenced by Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan ( 1890 ), a story that inspired Lovecraft's " The Dunwich Horror " ( 1929 ).

Notable exceptions include adaptations of Curt Siodmak's Donovan's Brain and H. P. Lovecraft's " The Dunwich Horror ", but by the late 1950s, such material was regularly featured.

The Moodus noises were the basis for the otherworldly noises in H. P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror.

Mystery Hill is popularly attributed as inspiration for Lovecraft's story " The Dunwich Horror ".

In Lovecraft's short story The Dunwich Horror, Yog-Sothoth impregnates a mortal woman, Lavinia Whateley, who then gives birth to twin sons: the humanoid Wilbur Whateley, and his more monstrous unnamed brother.

Despite being spoken of on only a few occasions in Lovecraft's work, Yig is one of the Ancient Ones included in the Arkham Horror board game, appearing alongside Great Old Ones such as Cthulhu and Nyarlathotep.

Lovecraft's books ( e. g., The Hobb's End Horror in reference to The Dunwich Horror ).

This is used as a plot device in H. P. Lovecraft's story The Dunwich Horror.

The town is also the setting of the loose film adaptation of Lovecraft's story, also called The Dunwich Horror, starring Dean Stockwell and Sandra Dee.

The repeated headline " Sixty Lost in Underground Horror ", which makes Doris think of " graveyards, sewers, and flabby-pale, noisome things swarming suddenly out of the tubes themselves, wrapping their arms ( tentacles, maybe ) around the hapless commuters on the platforms, dragging them away to darkness ," evokes the painting " some unknown catacomb through a crack in the floor of the Boston Street subway and attacking a crowd of people on the platform " from Lovecraft's story, " Pickman's Model ".

The game uses many elements from Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror and The Shadow Over Innsmouth.

H. P. Lovecraft's essay " Supernatural Horror in Literature " describes the novel as " one of the most potent pieces of macabre imagination ever written ".

The story contains the first mention of Abdul Alhazred, a fictional authority on the occult who would later be mentioned in most of Lovecraft's major Cthulhu Mythos stories, including " The Hound " ( 1922 ), " The Festival " ( 1923 ), " The Call of Cthulhu " ( 1926 ), The Case of Charles Dexter Ward ( 1927 ), " The Dunwich Horror " ( 1928 ), " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1930 ) At the Mountains of Madness ( 1931 ), " The Dreams in the Witch House " ( 1932 ), " The Thing on the Doorstep " ( 1933 ), and " The Shadow out of Time " ( 1934 ).

Lovecraft's story The Dunwich Horror, one of Lovecraft's best known works and a key text in the Cthulhu Mythos ; one of the main characters in the tale is a Dr. Armitage.