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Lovecraft's and cycle
The name was first applied to the creatures in Lovecraft's short story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), elaborating on a reference to ' What fungi sprout in Yuggoth ' in his sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth ( 1929 – 30 ) which described the contrasting vegetation on alien dream-worlds.
Ballantine Books ’ mass paperback edition, Fungi From Yuggoth & Other Poems ( Random House, New York, 1971 ) was followed in 1982 by the chapbook printing of Lovecraft's sonnet cycle ( Necronomicon Press, West Warwick, RI ).
Lovecraft's sonnet cycle Fungi from Yuggoth, written in 1929 – 30, and were expounded upon in his novella At the Mountains of Madness ( 1931 ).
Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos.

Lovecraft's and horror
Call of Cthulhu is a horror fiction role-playing game based on H. P. Lovecraft's story of the same name and the associated Cthulhu Mythos.
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.
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.
" Gramma ", a short story made into a film in the 1980s anthology horror show The New Twilight Zone, mentions Lovecraft's notorious fictional creation Necronomicon, also borrowing the names of a number of the fictional monsters mentioned therein.
Lovecraft's short story " The Rats in the Walls " makes reference to Trimalchio, reading, " There was a vision of a Roman feast like that of Trimalchio, with a horror in a covered platter.
Lovecraft's horror short story The Shadow Over Innsmouth says that he originally came from Panton.
The saga of Den is a fantasy series about the adventures of a young underweight nerd who travels to Neverwhere, a universe taking inspirational nods from Robert E. Howard's Hyborian Age, Edgar Rice Burroughs's Barsoom and H. P. Lovecraft's horror dimensions.
Comparisons have been made between Lovecraft's Cthulhoid Old Ones and the boss encounters seen in many survival horror games.
In addition to being his personal favorite of all of his short stories, critics have considered " The Colour Out of Space " to be one of Lovecraft's best works, as well as the first to establish his trademark blending of science fiction and horror.
Joshi praises the work as one of Lovecraft's best and most frightening, particularly for the vagueness of the description of the story's eponymous horror.
The phrase " blind idiot god " comes from horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's description of the god Azathoth.
* Munchkin Cthulhu, the seventh standalone version, released in March 2007, lampoons Lovecraft's Mythos and the horror gaming that surrounds it, summoning classic monsters from outside reality.
The song " Cthulhu Dawn " invokes the character from horror writer H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
His first full-length novel, Move Under Ground ( Night Shade Books, 2004 / Prime Books, 2006 ), combined the Beat style of Jack Kerouac with the cosmic horror of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Many of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories were attempts at writing stories in H. P. Lovecraft's unique horror style.
The horror features of Lovecraft's stories tend to involve semi-gelatinous substances, such as slime, as opposed to standard horror tropes such as blood, bones, or corpses.
Subsequent horror writers also heavily drew on Lovecraft's work.

Lovecraft's and sonnets
Though Nyarlathotep appears as a character in only four stories and two sonnets ( which is more than any other of Lovecraft's gods ), his name is mentioned frequently in other works.
The sonnets see-saw between various themes in much the same way as do Lovecraft's short stories.

Lovecraft's and Fungi
The twenty-first sonnet of Lovecraft's poem-cycle " Fungi from Yuggoth " ( 1929 / 30 ) is essentially a retelling of the original prose poem.

Lovecraft's and from
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.
An ongoing theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of mankind in the face of the cosmic horrors that apparently exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the " Great Old Ones ": a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a deathlike sleep.
There have been attempts at categorizing this fictional group of beings, and Phillip A. Schreffler argues that by carefully scrutinizing Lovecraft's writings a workable framework emerges that outlines the entire " pantheon "from the unreachable " Outer Ones " ( e. g. Azathoth, who apparently occupies the centre of the universe ) and " Great Old Ones " ( e. g. Cthulhu, imprisoned on Earth in the sunken city of R ' lyeh ) to the lesser castes ( the lowly slave shoggoths and the Mi-go ).
") He was a member of the Lovecraft circle, ( Smith's literary friendship with H. P. Lovecraft lasted from 1922 until Lovecraft's death in 1937 ).
He had been severely affected by several tragedies occurring in a short period of time: Robert E. Howard's death by suicide ( 1936 ), Lovecraft's death from cancer ( 1937 ) and the deaths of his parents, which left him exhausted.
In " The Call of Cthulhu ", Lovecraft's characters encounter architecture which is " abnormal, non-Euclidian, and loathsomely redolent of spheres and dimensions apart from ours ".
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.
* Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe ( ISBN 0-8131-1728-3 ), by Donald R. Burleson, PhD, a longtime scholar on Lovecraft and acquaintance of S. T. Joshi, is probably the only book analyzing Lovecraft's literature from a deconstructionist standpoint.
* The Gentleman From Angell Street: Memories of H. P. Lovecraft ( ISBN 978-0-9701699-1-4 ), written by Muriel and C. M. Eddy, Jr. is a collection of personal remembrances and anecdotes from two of Lovecraft's closest friends in Providence.
In On Writing, King is critical of Lovecraft's dialogue-writing skills, using passages from The Colour Out of Space as particularly poor examples.
* Robert Harrison Blake, a character based on Robert Bloch from H. P. Lovecraft's short story " The Haunter of the Dark "
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.
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!
Robert M. Price points to a passage from " Idle Days on the Yann ", by Lord Dunsany, one of Lovecraft's favorite writers, as the source for the name Shub-Niggurath:
The following table lists the professors of Miskatonic University and their respective departments from Lovecraft's stories.
Arkham House, a publishing company started by two of Lovecraft's correspondents, August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, takes its name from this city as a tribute.
However, it may be surmised from Lovecraft's stories that it is some distance to the north of Boston, probably in Essex County, Massachusetts.
The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham.
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.
While the Mi-go of Lovecraft's mythos is completely unlike the migou of Tibetan stories, Lovecraft seems to equate the two, as can be seen in the following excerpt from " The Whisperer in Darkness ":

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