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 ).

Franklin's past — with his attempts to re-animate the dead and subsequent exile from the scientific community — may be a reference to Dr. Herbert West from H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West, Re-Animator.

Many of Robert E. Howard's Conan stories were attempts at writing stories in H. P. Lovecraft's unique horror style.

Sandy Petersen, now best known for his work on the Doom computer game, contacted them regarding writing a supplement for their popular fantasy game RuneQuest set in Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

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.

Some of Lovecraft's work was inspired by nightmares of his own.

The Library of America published a volume of Lovecraft's work in 2005, essentially declaring him a canonical American writer.

Lovecraft's work was an influence on a number of musicians.

* Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos ( ISBN 0-586-04166-4 ), written by Lin Carter in 1972, is a survey of Lovecraft's work ( along with that of other members of the Lovecraft Circle ) with considerable information on his life.

However, his concept of what was possible in the weird genre changed radically when he discovered Lovecraft's work.

Cats would be used in what scholar Katharine M. Rogers calls " a more original way " in Lovecraft's 1923 work The Rats in the Walls.

The text of The Cats of Ulthar, like many of Lovecraft's works, has fallen into public domain and can be accessed in several compilations of the author's work as well as on the Internet.

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, in his short work " The History of the Necronomicon " ( written 1927, published after Lovecraft's death, in 1938 ), made John Dee the translator of one of the versions of his mythical book of forbidden lore The Necronomicon ( an example of Lovecraft's use of the technique of ' pseudo-authenticity '), much nonsense has been written connecting Dee and Enochian magic with The Necronomicon.

He would have illustrated Alan Moore's prose work inspired by Lovecraft's writings, known as Yuggoth Cultures, had that project not fallen through.

Schwartz and Weisinger also founded the Solar Sales Service literary agency ( 1934 – 1944 ) where Schwartz represented such writers as Alfred Bester, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Robert Bloch, Ray Bradbury, and H. P. Lovecraft, including some of Bradbury's first published work and Lovecraft's last.

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.

He also lauded the work as Lovecraft's most successful attempt to create something entirely outside of the human experience, as the creature's motive ( if any ) is unknown and it is impossible to discern whether or not the " colour " is emotional, moral, or even conscious.

The text of " The Colour Out of Space ", like many of Lovecraft's works, has fallen into public domain and can be accessed in several compilations of the author's work as well as on the Internet.

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 ".

Smith considers Haller's work to be an imitation of Roger Corman's Edgar Allan Poe films rather than a serious attempt at adapting Lovecraft's tale.

Another adaptation, 1987's The Curse, was directed by David Keith and more closely follows the plot of Lovecraft's work.

* The Necronomicon in H. P. Lovecraft's books serves as a repository of recondite and evil knowledge in many of his works and the work of others.

The novel also contains other references to Lovecraft's work.

King has mimicked this idea of Lovecraft's with the towns of Jerusalem's Lot, Castle Rock, Derry, and – to a lesser extent – Little Tall Island and Haven.

Price, however, believed that Lovecraft's writings could at least be divided into categories and identified three distinct themes: the " Dunsanian " ( written in the vein of Lord Dunsany ), " Arkham " ( occurring in Lovecraft's fictionalized New England setting ), and " Cthulhu " ( the cosmic tales ) cycles.

Lovecraft's fiction has been grouped into three categories by some critics.

" 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.

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 first book of Lovecraft's I read made me into a writer.

" Demons by Daylight includes " The Franklyn Paragraphs ", which uses Lovecraft's documentary narrative technique without slipping into parody of his writing style.

August Derleth developed Hastur into a Great Old One in his controversial reworking of Lovecraft's universe, elaborating on this connection in his own mythos stories.

Somewhere near King's fictional town of Castle Rock, Nona takes him to a graveyard, where he encounters a possibly supernatural force, and is later found alone by the authorities, taken into custody, tried, and sentenced to prison, where he now writes his tale, preparing to commit suicide as he contemplates hearing strange sounds in the walls ( not unlike H. P. Lovecraft's short story " The Rats in the Walls ", or King's own earlier work, " Jerusalem's Lot ").

These films transplant the character into the modern day ( 1980s-2000s ) rather than the Prohibition era and changes his hair from Lovecraft's specified blond to brown, but otherwise the character remains unchanged.

This is the name given to Yog-Sothoth in August Derleth and H. P. Lovecraft's novel The Lurker at the Threshold.

Lovecraft's novel The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, a winged creature called " the Shantak-bird " is described as having " the head of a horse ", also as " big as an elephant " with " scales instead of feathers ".

The real Marblehead, as well as Lovecraft himself, appears in the 1985 Richard A. Lupoff novel Lovecraft's Book.

the book gives three spells that can be invoked in his name, one of which is called The Curse of Yig ( mimicking the title of Bishop / Lovecraft's novel ), which conjures snakes depending on the character's magic rank.

Chaosium's role-playing adventure Beyond the Mountains of Madness ( 1999 ), a sequel to Lovecraft's novel, includes a " missing ending " of Poe's novel, in which Pym encounters some of Lovecraft's creatures at their Antarctic city.

Lovecraft's short story " From Beyond ", with which the novel shares thematic and plot elements.

The chthonians had a more prominent role in Lumley's novel The Burrowers Beneath ( 1974 ), whose title was taken from one of the stories said to have been written by Robert Blake in Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark.

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.

Vathek is also believed to have been a model for Lovecraft's completed novel The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

Along with his 1927 novel The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, it can be considered one of the significant achievements of that period of Lovecraft's writing.

Like Lovecraft's novel fragment " Azathoth " ( 1922, published 1938 ), The Dream-Quest appears to have been influenced by Vathek, a 1786 novel by William Thomas Beckford that " is similarly an exotic fantasy written without chapter divisions ".

Oxford artist Charles Cutting uses the plot of Lovecraft's novel as a basis for his web comic " The Dream Quest of Randolph Carter " which appears on The Illustrated Ape's website.

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

A similar theme of the conflict around the opening of a Gate to an older world ( also with references to Lovecraft's work ) can be seen in Zelazny's novel Madwand.

* All-Consuming Fire, a 1994 Doctor Who novel by Andy Lane, part of the New Adventures series ; in this story, the Doctor joins forces with Holmes and Watson to confront Azathoth, an entity from H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

Pretorius appears in Kim Newman's crossover novel Dracula Cha Cha Cha, as a colleague of H. P. Lovecraft's Herbert West.