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.

Lovecraft's actual philosophy has been termed " cosmic indifferentism " and this is expressed in his fiction.

Lovecraft's materialist views led his fiction to espouse his philosophical views ; his fiction therefore consists of a stance or worldview which may be termed cosmicism.

Lovecraft's later correspondence is primarily to fellow weird fiction writers, rather than to the amateur journalist friends of his earlier years.

* Lovecraft's prose fiction has been published numerous times.

ISBN 978-0-8095-3002-1 A close reading of Lovecraft's fiction.

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.

Shub-Niggurath is first mentioned in Lovecraft's revision story " The Last Test " ( 1928 ); she is never actually described in Lovecraft's fiction, but is frequently mentioned or called upon in incantations.

Shub-Niggurath's appearances in Lovecraft's main body of fiction do not provide much detail about his conception of the entity.

In addition to volumes of H. P. Lovecraft's fiction, Arkham House has published a five volume edition of Lovecraft's Selected Letters which gives an overview of Lovecraft's correspondence to peers, friends and family.

Arkham House also published fiction by many of Lovecraft's contemporaries, including Ray Bradbury, Robert E. Howard, Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, Robert Bloch, and Derleth himself ; classic genre fiction by authors such as William Hope Hodgson, Algernon Blackwood, H. Russell Wakefield, Seabury Quinn, and Sheridan Le Fanu ; and later writers in the Lovecraft school, such as Ramsey Campbell and Brian Lumley to whom Derleth gave their earliest publication in hardcover.

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.

The last major reference in Lovecraft's fiction to Azathoth was in 1935's " The Haunter of the Dark ", which tells of " the ancient legends of Ultimate Chaos, at whose center sprawls the blind idiot god Azathoth, Lord of All Things, encircled by his flopping horde of mindless and amorphous dancers, and lulled by the thin monotonous piping of a demonic flute held in nameless paws.

Its title is a play on two of Lovecraft's tales, The Shadow Over Innsmouth and At the Mountains of Madness, and insanity plays as great a role in the film as it does in Lovecraft's fiction.

First appearing in the September 1927 edition of Hugo Gernsback's science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, " The Colour Out of Space " became one of Lovecraft's most popular works and remained his personal favorite short story.

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.

Edmund Wilson, who was not an admirer of Lovecraft's fiction, praised the essay as a " really able piece of

Appalled at finding literally 1500 textual errors in his favorite Lovecraft story, At the Mountains of Madness, he devoted years of research consulting manuscripts and early publications to establish the textual history of Lovecraft's works, in order to prepare corrected editions of Lovecraft's collected fiction, revisions and miscellaneous writings in collaboration with Jim Turner for Arkham House ; they were published in five volumes between 1984 and 1995.

Lovecraft's style has often been criticised by unsympathetic critics, yet scholars such as S. T. Joshi have shown that Lovecraft consciously utilised a variety of literary devices to form a unique style of his own-these include conscious archaism, prose-poetic techniques combined with essay-form techniques, alliteration, anaphora, crescendo, transferred epithet, metaphor, symbolism and colloquialism.

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.

Again, even if Derleth did obtain the copyrights to Lovecraft's tales, no evidence as yet has been found that the copyrights were renewed.

Local lore has it that Lovecraft's girlfriend attended the school and was exposed to the diverse community in an eerie location.

Ligotti has stated that many of his short stories make allusions to Lovecraft's Azathoth, although rarely by that name.

Influenced by Lord Dunsany, the tale was a personal favorite of Lovecraft's and has remained popular since his death.

Lord Dunsany, Edward Plunkett, has been cited as a major influence on both this tale and other of Lovecraft's works

It has also been noted that this is one of Lovecraft's most famous tales in both this and the " weird fantasy " style.

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.

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.

Lovecraft's story, " The Rats In the Wall ," has reoccurring nightmares of a bearded daemon swineherd.

Ancient astronaut theory has been used as background or main topic in many fictional works such as Lovecraft's short story " The Call of Cthulhu " ( 1926 ), the movie Stargate ( 1994 ), the movie Knowing ( 2009 ), the movie Prometheus ( 2012 ), the TV show Earth: Final Conflict, and innumerable comic books, manga books and video games.

In Lovecraft's novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath ( 1926 ), Randolph Carter has a fateful encounter with the High Priest Not to Be Described.

Shea's interest in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos has continued throughout his career.

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.

However, their presentation has evolved to be more similar to the Deep Ones, creatures that appear in H. P. Lovecraft's novella " The Shadow Over Innsmouth ".

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.

Joshi has been asked by film director Guillermo del Toro to act as a consultant on del Toro's long-mooted film project, a cinematic version of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.

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 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.

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

Kenneth Grant suggested Lovecraft's description of Yog-Sothoth as a conglomeration of " malignant globes " may have been inspired by the Qliphoth | Spheres of the Qliphoth.

Comparisons have been made between Lovecraft's Cthulhoid Old Ones and the boss encounters seen in many survival horror games.

This concept had previously been used in Lovecraft's 1920 short story " From Beyond ".

Lovecraft's letters to Long after 1931 have all been lost, with the letters up to that date existing primarily in transcriptions prepared by Arkham House.

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.

* The Marble Faun has been cited as an influence on H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

Burroughs ' Barsoom novels have also been cited as a model for H. P. Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

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

Early charter members included Claire Beck ( who had printed and published, under his Futile Press imprint, an edition of Lovecraft's Commonplace Book and Clark Ashton Smith's Nero and Other Poems ( 1937 )); Harry Morris Jr ; Meade Frierson ; Stuart David Schiff, publisher of Whispers ( Magazine / Anthologies ); R. Alain Everts ; Ben Indick ; Ken Faig Jr ( who joined with 7th mailing and has been continuously in the APA until the present day ); Dirk W. Mosig ; David Drake ; Robert Weinberg ; J. Vernon Shea ; Chet Williamson ; Tom Collins ; Crispin Burnham ; Will Hart ; Glenn Lord.

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 ".