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

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

" Upon reading the essay, M. R. James proclaimed Lovecraft's style " most offensive.

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 blockbuster Ghostbusters ( which novelist / screenwriter Barbara Hambly has called " marvelously Lovecraftian ") is noticeably reminiscent of Lovecraft's style.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

They saw each other with great frequency ( especially during Lovecraft's Brooklyn residence in New York City from 1924 to 1926 ), at which time they were the chief members of the Kalem Club and wrote to each other often.

While the influence of the fantasies of Lord Dunsany on Lovecraft's Dream Cycle is often noted, Robert M. Price argues that a more direct model for The Dream-Quest is provided by the six Mars (" Barsoom ") novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs that had been published by 1927:

Lovecraft's cycle of interconnected works often known as the Cthulhu Mythos.

Characters in Lovecraft's stories rarely if ever fully understand what is happening to them, and often go insane if they try.

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 ".