Chaosium included d20 stats as an appendix in three releases ( see Lovecraft Country ), but have since dropped the " dual stat " idea.

Although not formalised and acknowledged as a mythos per se, Lovecraft did correspond with contemporary writers ( Clark Ashton Smith, Robert E. Howard, Robert Bloch, Frank Belknap Long, Henry Kuttner, and Fritz Lieber – a group referred to as the " Lovecraft Circle ") – and shared story elements: Robert E. Howard's character Friedrich Von Junzt reads Lovecraft's Necronomicon in the short story " The Children of the Night " ( 1931 ), and in turn Lovecraft mentions Howard's Unaussprechlichen Kulten in the stories " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) and " The Shadow Out of Time " ( 1936 ).

* The Mi-go aliens in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, first appearing in the story " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), can transport humans from Earth to Pluto ( and beyond ) and back again by removing the subject's brain and placing it into a " brain cylinder ", which can be attached to external devices to allow it to see, hear, and speak.

Themes from Gothic writers such as H. P. Lovecraft were also used among gothic rock and heavy metal bands, especially in black metal, thrash metal ( Metallica's The Call of Ktulu ), death metal, and gothic metal.

Other notable works with Lovecraft as a character include Richard Lupoff's Lovecraft's Book ( 1985 ), H. P.

Lovecraft's: Necronomicon ( 1993 ), David Barbour and Richard Raleigh's Shadows Bend ( 2000 ), Peter Cannon's The Lovecraft Chronicles ( 2004 ) and Stargate SG-1: Roswell ( 2007 ).

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 ).

), Night Shade Books ( Mysteries of Time and Spirit: The Letters of H. P. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei et al ..), Necronomicon Press ( Letters to Samuel Loveman and Vincent Starrett et al.

* The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft ( ISBN 978-1-84728-776-2 ), written by Gary Hill.

* Lovecraft: Disturbing the Universe ( ISBN 0-8131-1728-3 ), by Donald R. Burleson, PhD, a longtime scholar on Lovecraft and acquaintance of S. T. Joshi, is probably the only book analyzing Lovecraft's literature from a deconstructionist standpoint.

* The Gentleman From Angell Street: Memories of H. P. Lovecraft ( ISBN 978-0-9701699-1-4 ), written by Muriel and C. M. Eddy, Jr. is a collection of personal remembrances and anecdotes from two of Lovecraft's closest friends in Providence.

* 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.

* The first full-length biography was Lovecraft: a Biography ( ISBN 0-345-25115-6 ), written by L. Sprague de Camp ; published in 1975, it is now out of print.

* 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.

* An Epicure in the Terrible ( Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1991 ), edited by David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi is an anthology of 13 essays on Lovecraft ( excluding Joshi's lengthy introduction ) on the centennial of Lovecraft's birth.

Author H. P. Lovecraft is alluded to often, with many mentions of characters ( e. g., Robert Harrison Blake, Henry Armitage, Klarkash-Ton ), monsters ( e. g., Tsathoggua, Yog-Sothoth ), books ( Necronomicon, Unaussprechlichen Kulten ) and places ( Miskatonic University ) from his Cthulhu Mythos.

It might also have been a pun on " all-has-read ", since Lovecraft was an avid reader in youth.

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.

Aside from his thinly-veiled appearance in Robert Bloch's " The Shambler from the Stars ", Lovecraft continues to be used as a character in supernatural fiction.

Finally, in " Out of the Aeons ", a revision tale set in part on the lost continent of Mu, Lovecraft describes the character T ' yog as the " High Priest of Shub-Niggurath and guardian of the copper temple of the Goat with a Thousand Young ".

Rodolfo Ferraresi, in his essay " The Question of Shub-Niggurath ", says that Lovecraft himself separated the two in his writings, such as in " Out of the Aeons " ( 1935 ) in which a distinction is made between Shub-Niggurath and the Black Goat — the goat is the figurehead through which Shub-Niggurath is worshipped.

After first appearing in the H. P. Lovecraft 1922 serial " Herbert West – Reanimator ", the school appeared in numerous horror stories in the Cthulhu Mythos by Lovecraft and other writers.

Lovecraft ), " A Question of Fear ", " Silent Snow, Secret Snow ", and " The Sins of the Fathers ".

Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that " Campbell reigns supreme in the field today ", while S. T. Joshi stated, " future generations will regard him as the leading horror writer of our generation, every bit the equal of Lovecraft or Blackwood.

In 1969, he had written " Lovecraft in Retrospect ", an essay for the fanzine Shadow, " condemning work outright.

* Was referred to in the H. P. Lovecraft story, " The Shadow Over Innsmouth ", as being located near Innsmouth.

" Lovecraft scholar Peter Cannon regarded the story as " ambitious and complex ... a dense and subtle narrative in which the horror gradually builds to cosmic proportions ", adding " one of bleakest fictional expressions of man's insignificant place in the universe.

Schweitzer refers to the prose as " restrained ", and notes that, unlike Lovecraft, Dunsany preferred dogs and would have been unlikely to have written such an enthusiastic tribute.

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.

* " Iä ", a fictional greeting in the works of H. P. Lovecraft

* " The Whisperer in Darkness ", by H. P. Lovecraft

' Umr at-Tawil ( Arabic عمر الطويل ) The Ancient and Prolonged of Life ), also spelled Tawil At-U ' mr or Tawil-at ' Umr, is described as an avatar of Yog-Sothoth in the story " Through the Gates of the Silver Key ", by Lovecraft and E. Hoffman Price.

Yig first appeared in the story " The Curse of Yig ", which was created by Zealia Bishop and almost completely rewritten by Lovecraft.

H. P. Lovecraft was in constant fear of Asiatic culture engulfing the world and a few of his stories reflect this, such as The Horror At Red Hook, where " slant-eyed immigrants practice nameless rites in honor of heathen gods by the light of the moon ", and He, where the protagonist is given a glimpse of the future-the " yellow men " have conquered the world, and now dance to their drums over the ruins of the white man.

They are presented in CthulhuTech much as they are in the original Lovecraft stories, and somewhat similar to that in Delta Green: they are masters of science and genetics, and in particular human genetics.

He soon learns that Cassima is being held prisoner in her castle by Abdul Alhazred, ( named after the author of the fictional Necronomicon in the stories of H. P. Lovecraft ) the evil Vizier of the Green Isles.

His writing has also appeared in sources such as the Green Man Review and Lovecraft Studies.

The name Abdul Alhazred is a pseudonym that Lovecraft created in his youth, which he took on after reading 1001 Arabian Nights at the age of about five.

The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe, based on the work of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

In a letter to James F. Morton in 1923, Lovecraft specifically points to Einstein's theory on relativity as throwing the world into chaos and making the cosmos a jest.

As he studied many scientific advances of biology, astronomy, geology, and physics, Lovecraft was more and more confounded and fueled his skepticism on humanity.

After Lovecraft's death, the Lovecraft Circle carried on.

Derleth's Cthulhu Mythos stories went on to associate different gods with the traditional four elements of fire, air, earth and water-an artificial constraint which required rationalizations on Derleth's part as Lovecraft himself never envisioned such a scheme.

Beyond direct adaptation, Lovecraft and his stories have had a profound impact on popular culture and have been praised by many modern writers.

Doom metal band Catacombs has an album based on Lovecraft called In the Depths of R ' lyeh.

Several video games are based on or influenced heavily by Lovecraft such as Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth, Shadow of the Comet, Prisoner of Ice, Shadowman, Alone in the Dark, Chzo Mythos, Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem, Cthulhu Saves the World, Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, Dead Space, Splatterhouse, Darkness Within: In Pursuit of Loath Nolder, Penumbra, and Quake.

So, all works of Lovecraft published during his lifetime, became public domain in all 27 European Union countries on 1 January 2008.

* Frank Belknap Long's Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside ( Arkham House, 1975, ISBN 0-87054-068-8 ) presents a more personal look at Lovecraft's life, combining reminiscence, biography and literary criticism.

P. Lovecraft: Alone in Space ,” chapter 3 in Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry by S. T. Joshi ( Sydney: P ’ rea Press, 2008: ISBN 978-0-9804625-3-1 ( pbk ) and ISBN 978-0-9804625-4-8 ( hbk )), discusses some of Lovecraft's weird poetry.

In 1999, Strange Company used Quake II in Eschaton: Nightfall, a horror film based on the work of H. P. Lovecraft.

Category: Video games based on works by H. P. Lovecraft

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.

The influence of the Nights on modern horror fiction is certainly discernible in the work of H. P. Lovecraft.