Many modern horror and fantasy writers, including Stephen King, Bentley Little, Joe R. Lansdale, Alan Moore, Junji Ito, F. Paul Wilson, Brian Lumley, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Neil Gaiman, have cited Lovecraft as one of their primary influences.

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.

" In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, Lovecraft ties this plot germ to Vathek, a novel by William Beckford about a supernatural caliph.

H. P. Lovecraft refers to William Scoresby's illustrations when describing an Antarctic mirage in the story ' At The Mountains Of Madness '

The secondary dedication named Howard Hughes, James Moody, Marcello Truzzi, Adrian ‐ Claude Frazier, Marilyn Monroe, Wesley Mather, William Lindsay Gresham, Hugo Zacchini, Jayne Mansfield, Frederick Goerner, C. Huntley, Nathanael West, Horatio Alger, Jr., Robert E. Howard, George Orwell, H. P. Lovecraft, Tuesday Weld, H. G. Wells, Sister Marie Koven, Harry Houdini, Togare ( LaVey's pet lion ), and the Nine Unknown Men from The Nine Unknown.

Lovecraft, in turn, ghostwrote for Long the preface to Mrs William B. Symmes ' Old World Footprints ( W. Paul Cook / The Recluse Press, 1928 ), a slim poetry collection by Long's aunt.

Notable mythopoeic authors include Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, William Blake, H. P. Lovecraft, Lord Dunsany, Mervyn Peake and George MacDonald.

He is a significant bibliographer, having compiled bibliographies of Lovecraft, Bierce, Dunsany, Ramsey Campbell, William Hope Hodgson ( forthcoming ), Ray Bradbury and Clark Ashton Smith.

Joshi is also the author of God's Defenders: What They Believe and Why They Are Wrong ( 2003 ), an anti-religious polemic against various writers including C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, T. S. Eliot, William F. Buckley, Jr., William James, Stephen L. Carter, Annie Dillard, Reynolds Price, Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, Guenter Lewy, Neale Donald Walsch and Jerry Falwell, which is dedicated to theologian and fellow Lovecraft critic Robert M. Price.

As the game reviewer Rick Swan stated, " It's as if H. P. Lovecraft had written Alice in Wonderland, with Hans Christian Andersen and William S. Burroughs as technical advisors.

In " The Diary of Alonzo Typer ", ghostwritten by Lovecraft for William Lumley, it is likewise part of an occult library in the van der Heyl house in Attica, New York.

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 ).

In 2005 the prestigious Library of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by Peter Straub, and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the " definitive edition " of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness ( also including " Supernatural Horror in Literature ").

" 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.

Lovecraft scholar Peter Cannon dismissively describes the story as " little more than a polemic against the intrusion of people Lovecraft regarded as ' foreigners ,' that is, the non-English immigrants who arrived in the nineteenth century as cheap labor to fill the factories of an increasingly industrialized America.

** H. P. Lovecraft by Peter Cannon

The Long / Lovecraft friendship was fictionalized in Peter Cannon's 1985 novel Pulptime: Being a Singular Adventure of Sherlock Holmes, Lovecraft, and the Kalem Club as if Narrated by Frank Belknap Long, Jr .. Long was a Guest of Honour at the Lovecraft Centennial Conference in Providence in 1990.

Lovecraft ( with Peter H. Cannon ) ( Dell Books, 1999 ).

L. Sprague de Camp, in his Lovecraft: A Biography, wrote that " ccording to the late expert Thomas O. Mabbott, P. Lovecraft, in " Supernatural Horror ", solved a problem in the interpretation of Poe " by arguing that " Roderick Usher, his sister Madeline, and the house all shared one common soul ".

Dan O ' Bannon, the original writer of the Alien screenplay, has also mentioned Lovecraft as a major influence on the film.

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.

So I am punishing the little fucker like the malevolent clown he was, I can look at it and remember the honour, and above all I am writing behind Lovecraft ’ s back.

* H. P. Lovecraft ’ s colours out of space are mutagenic non-humanoid alien creatures that arrived in a meteor with odd properties.

One of the categories of this pantheon – the “ Great Old Ones ” or “ Old Ones ” – has become a standard in analyzing Lovecraft ’ s fiction.

* Collector ’ s booklet featuring ‘ World of Lovecraft ’ and an Interview with star Jeffrey Combs by author and critic Calum Waddell as well as an extract from H. P.

Lovecraft ’ s original story ‘ Herbert West: Renimator ’

He read L. Sprague de Camp's biography of Lovecraft, Lovecraft: a Biography, on publication in 1975 and began thereafter to devote himself to the study of Lovecraft, guided in this by scholars such as Dirk W. Mosig, J. Vernon Shea and George Wetzel.

Robert M. Price described in his essay " H. P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos " two stages in the development of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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 ).

Smith was one of " the big three of Weird Tales, along with Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, where some readers objected to his morbidness and violation of pulp traditions.

Clark Ashton Smith was the third member of the great triumvirate of Weird Tales, with Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard.

Other influences include the works of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Merritt, H. P. Lovecraft, Fritz Leiber, L. Sprague de Camp, Fletcher Pratt, Roger Zelazny, and Michael Moorcock.

Lovecraft was also influenced by authors such as Gertrude Barrows Bennett ( who, writing as Francis Stevens, impressed Lovecraft enough that he publicly praised her stories and eventually " emulated Bennett's earlier style and themes "), Oswald Spengler, Robert W. Chambers ( writer of The King in Yellow, of whom Lovecraft wrote in a letter to Clark Ashton Smith: " Chambers is like Rupert Hughes and a few other fallen Titans — equipped with the right brains and education but wholly out of the habit of using them ").

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.

Lovecraft and some associates are included at length in Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's The Illuminatus!

Her ideas also inspired other writers, ranging from horror authors like H. P. Lovecraft and Dennis Wheatley to Robert Graves.

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.

The author also wrote pioneering biographies of many key fantasy writers, most as short articles, but two as full-length studies of the prominent authors Robert E. Howard and H. P. Lovecraft, the first major independent biographies of both writers.

Lovecraft has a villainous wizard in his short story " The Thing on the Doorstep " called Ephraim Waite ; according to Robert M. Price this character was based on Waite.

The Not-to-Be-Named-One, not being named, is difficult to identify ; a similar phrase, translated into Latin as the Magnum Innominandum, appears in a list in " The Whisperer in Darkness " and was included in a scrap of incantation that Lovecraft wrote for Robert Bloch's " The Shambler from the Stars ".

Robert M. Price proposes that the name Nyarlathotep may have been subconsciously suggested to Lovecraft by two names from Lord Dunsany, an author he much admired.