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" 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.
" the first book of Lovecraft's I read made me into a writer.
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.
Comparisons have been made between Lovecraft's Cthulhoid Old Ones and the boss encounters seen in many survival horror games.
While many made direct references to elements of Lovecraft's mythos, either to draw on its associations or to acknowledge his influence, many others drew on the feel and tone of his work without specifically referring to mythos elements.

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The view that there was no rigid structure is reinforced by S. T. Joshi, who stated " Lovecraft's imaginary cosmogony was never a static system but rather a sort of aesthetic construct that remained ever adaptable to its creator's developing personality and altering interests ... here was never a rigid system that might be posthumously appropriated ... he essence of the mythos lies not in a pantheon of imaginary deities nor in a cobwebby collection of forgotten tomes, but rather in a certain convincing cosmic attitude.
Again, even if Derleth did obtain the copyrights to Lovecraft's tales, no evidence as yet has been found that the copyrights were renewed.
* Innsmouth Mansion ( インスマウスの館 Insumausu no Yakata ) is a Japanese Virtual Boy game based on a Japanese low budget movie which in turn is based on H. P. Lovecraft's novella " The Shadow Over Innsmouth ".
Although some believed Thibault De Castries to be H. P. Lovecraft's associate Adolphe De Castro, De Castries died well before De Castro, and there is no evidence other than a nominal similarity in name to connect the two.

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Given the similarities in the two characters ' names, professions, written works and generally dark subject matter, it is likely that Lovecraft's Alhazred provided the main inspiration for al-Hazir.
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.
This group of writers became known as the " Lovecraft Circle ", since they all freely borrowed elements of Lovecraft's stories – the mysterious books with disturbing names, the pantheon of ancient alien entities, such as Cthulhu and Azathoth, and eldritch places, such as the New England town of Arkham and its Miskatonic University – for use in their own works with Lovecraft's encouragement.
Questions center over whether copyrights for Lovecraft's works were ever renewed under the terms of the United States Copyright Act of 1976 for works created prior to January 1, 1978.
The copyright for Lovecraft's works would have been inherited by the only surviving heir of his 1912 will: Lovecraft's aunt, Annie Gamwell.
Morrish and Lewis then signed a document, sometimes referred to as the Morrish-Lewis gift, permitting Arkham House to republish Lovecraft's works but retaining the copyrights for themselves.
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.
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 Moodus noises were the basis for the otherworldly noises in H. P. Lovecraft's The Dunwich Horror.
The Pnakotic Manuscripts are noteworthy for being the first of Lovecraft's fictional arcane books.
Lovecraft's story, as both reference a huge aquatic creature sleeping for an eternity at the bottom of the ocean and destined to emerge from his slumber in an apocalyptic age.
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 ".
Mystery Hill is popularly attributed as inspiration for Lovecraft's story " The Dunwich 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.
* In Fall 2009 Open Circle Theater in Seattle produced an original adaptation of Charles Dexter Ward for the stage, using Lovecraft's original title, Madness Out of Time.
H. P. Lovecraft is also an important touchstone for Ligotti: a few stories, " The Sect of the Idiot " in particular, make explicit reference to Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, and one, " The Last Feast of Harlequin ," was dedicated to Lovecraft.
Lovecraft's poem " Nemesis " deals with eternal recurrence, being narrated by a persona who is doomed to live over his lives " without number " as a punishment for hubris.
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.

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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 ".
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
" 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 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.
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.

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