Giger's book of paintings which led directly to many of the designs for the film Alien was named Necronomicon, the name of a fictional book in several of Lovecraft's mythos stories.

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 fiction has been grouped into three categories by some critics.

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 poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. P. Lovecraft ( Night Shade Books, 2001 ), while much of his juvenilia, various essays on philosophical, political and literary topics, antiquarian travelogues, and other things, can be found in Miscellaneous Writings ( Arkham House, 1989 ).

" The Silver Key " – perhaps the most overtly philosophical of Lovecraft's fiction-finds Carter entering middle age and losing his " key to the gate of dreams.

Abdul is a common Arabic name component ( but never a name by itself ; additionally the ending-ul and the beginning Al-are redundant ), but Alhazred may allude to Hazard, a pun on the book's destructive and dangerous nature, or a reference to Lovecraft's ancestors by that name.

" 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 ).

Lovecraft's circle of correspondents ; Smith knew them far earlier than Lovecraft.

The term " Cthulhu Mythos " was coined by Lovecraft's correspondent and fellow author, August Derleth, after Lovecraft's death ; Lovecraft jocularly referred to his artificial mythology as " Yog-Sothothery ".

* 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.

( 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 ).

*" H. P. Lovecraft's ' The Music of Erich Zann '", The H. P. Lovecraft Archive ; publication history and full story text

Wright ( who suffered from Parkinson's disease ) continued to publish stories by Lovecraft, Smith, and Quinn, though he was more selective than Baird ; he rejected Lovecraft's " At the Mountains of Madness ", " The Shadow Over Innsmouth " and ( initially ) " The Call of Cthulhu ", among other stories.

Set in Lovecraft's hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, it was first published ( in abridged form ) in the May and July issues of Weird Tales in 1941 ; the first complete publication was in Arkham House's Beyond the Wall of Sleep collection ( 1943 ).

Joshi and his editorial collaborator David E. Schultz have edited many volumes of Lovecraft's letters to individuals: for Necronomicon Press ( including those to Richard F. Searight, Robert Bloch, Henry Kuttner, Samuel Loveman and Vincent Starrett ); for Night Shade Books ( Mysteries of Time and Spirit: Letters to Donald Wandrei ) and Letters from New York ; and for University of Tampa Press ( O Fortunate Floridian: Letters to Robert H. Barlow ).

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.

Lovecraft's viewpoint made no allowance for religious belief which could not be supported scientifically, with the incomprehensible, cosmic forces of his tales having as little regard for humanity as humans have for insects.

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.

Lovecraft's protégé, Robert Bloch, contributed to Weird Tales and penned Psycho ( 1959 ), which drew on the classic interests of the genre.

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 ".

Other fictional dream worlds include the Dreamlands of H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle and The Neverending Storys world of Fantasia, which includes places like the Desert of Lost Dreams, the Sea of Possibilities and the Swamps of Sadness.

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.

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.

Arkham is the home of Miskatonic University, which figures prominently in many of Lovecraft's works.

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

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.

In the process, King Solomon's Mines created a new genre, known as the " Lost World ", which would inspire Edgar Rice Burroughs ' The Land That Time Forgot, Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World, Rudyard Kipling's The Man Who Would Be King and HP Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness.

* The series Der Hexer von Salem by German author Wolfgang Hohlbein, which is based on H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

Price also points to the alchemical term " Azoth ", which was used in the title of a book by Arthur Edward Waite, the model for the wizard Ephraim Waite in Lovecraft's " The Thing on the Doorstep ".

" Here " nuclear " most likely refers to Azathoth's central location at the nucleus of the cosmos and not to nuclear energy, which did not truly come of age until after Lovecraft's death.

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.

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.