Here, as in others of Lovecraft later tales, cats embody the attraction to horror while, unlike the human protagonists, " never pursuing horror to the point of becoming horrible themselves ".

* The H. P. Lovecraft story " The Whisperer in Darkness " is the main focal point in the Electric Wizard song " Weird Tales: Electric Frost / Golgatha / Altar of Melektaus.

Fungi from Yuggoth represents a marked departure from the mannered poems Lovecraft had been writing up to this point.

The bulk of the story takes place in London and its environs, though at one point the story detours through the dream-world described by Lovecraft in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.

Lovecraft was quite critical of The Shadow Over Innsmouth, writing to August Derleth that the story " has all the defects I deplore — especially in point of style, where hackneyed phrases & rhythms have crept in despite all precautions .... No — I don't intend to offer ' The Shadow over Innsmouth ' for publication, for it would stand no chance of acceptance.

Abdul Alhazred is a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

The name was invented either by Lovecraft, or by Albert Baker, the Phillips ' family lawyer.

Many of these seem closer in tone to the pulp adventures of Indiana Jones than H. P. Lovecraft, but they are nonetheless beloved by many gamers.

Additional milieu were provided by Chaosium with the release of Dreamlands, a boxed supplement containing additional rules needed for playing within the Lovecraft Dreamlands, a large map and a scenario booklet, and Cthulhu By Gaslight, another boxed set which moved the action from the 1920s to the 1890s.

The term was first coined by August Derleth, a contemporary correspondent of Lovecraft, who used the name of the creature Cthulhu — a central figure in Lovecraft literature and the focus of Lovecraft's famous short story The Call of Cthulhu ( first published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928 )— to identify the system of lore employed by Lovecraft and his literary successors.

Lovecraft believed in a purposeless, mechanical, and uncaring universe that human beings, with their limited faculties, could never fully understand, and the cognitive dissonance caused by this leads to insanity.

Derleth expanded the boundaries of the Mythos by including any passing reference to another author's story elements by Lovecraft as part of the genre: just as Lovecraft made passing reference to Clark Ashton Smith's Book of Eibon, Derleth in turn added Smith's Ubbo-Sathla to the Mythos.

This was followed by a fan letter from H. P. Lovecraft, which was the beginning of 15 years of friendship and correspondence.

Smith wrote most of his weird fiction and Cthulhu Mythos stories, partially inspired by H. P. Lovecraft.

* 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.

A modern grimoire is the Simon Necronomicon, named after a fictional book of magic in the stories of author H. P. Lovecraft, and inspired by Babylonian mythology and the Ars Goetia, a section in the Lesser Key of Solomon which concerns the summoning of demons.

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 ").

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 ".

Price suggests that the basis of Derleth's systemization are found in Lovecraft, stating: " Was Derleth's use of the rubric ' Elder Gods ' so alien to Lovecraft's in At the Mountains of Madness?

" However, in his 1985 book Cold Print, which collects his Lovecraftian stories, Campbell disavowed the opinions expressed in the article, stating: " I believe Lovecraft is one of the most important writers in the field " and

At the center of the area they discover the Nameless City ( the setting of the Lovecraft story of the same name ) and in Derleth's text the domain of the Great Old One Hastur.

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 ).

Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges wrote his short story " There Are More Things " in memory of Lovecraft.

French philosophers Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari made reference to Lovecraft in A Thousand Plateaus and called the short story " Through the Gates of the Silver Key " one of his masterpieces.

Lovecraft Historical Society produced a silent film version of Lovecraft's story The Call of Cthulhu.

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 Alchemist " ( short story ), a short story by H. P. Lovecraft

The apparent location of R ' lyeh in the Pacific Ocean | South Pacific, as described in the short story The Call of Cthulhu ( 1928 ), by H. P. Lovecraft.

R ' lyeh is a fictional lost city that first appeared in the H. P. Lovecraft short story The Call of Cthulhu, first published in Weird Tales in 1928.

The next Lovecraft story to mention Shub-Niggurath is scarcely more informative.

The Black Goat may be the personification of Pan, since Lovecraft was influenced by Arthur Machen's The Great God Pan ( 1890 ), a story that inspired Lovecraft's " The Dunwich Horror " ( 1929 ).

Lovecraft, including the story " The Whisperer in Darkness ".

The most famous fictional grimoire is the Necronomicon, a creation of the author H. P. Lovecraft.

The most significant of these was H. P. Lovecraft who also wrote an excellent conspectus of the Gothic and supernatural horror tradition in his Supernatural Horror in Literature ( 1936 ) as well as developing a Mythos that would influence Gothic and contemporary horror well into the 21st century.

For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions ( specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels, Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, The Dunwich Horror and Others, and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions ) of his prose fiction were published by Arkham House, a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.

Today there are five publishing houses that have released letters from Lovecraft, most prominently Arkham House with its five-volume edition Selected Letters.

S. T. Joshi concludes in his biography, H. P. Lovecraft: A Life, that Derleth's claims are " almost certainly fictitious " and that most of Lovecraft's works published in the amateur press are most likely now in the public domain.

Wells or the Gothic romances of Mary Shelley, were set in a world that is recognizably that of the author and introduced only a single fantastic element — or at most a fantastic milieu within the author's world, as with Lovecraft or Howard.

The latter is inspired by several dark fantasy influences, notably that of H. P. Lovecraft ; most notably, Dimensional Shamblers appear as enemies, the " Spawn " enemies are called " Formless Spawn of Tsathoggua " in the manual, the end boss of the first episode is named Chthon, and the final boss is named Shub-Niggurath ( though actually resembling a Dark Young ).

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.

In a 1921 letter to Reinhardt Kleiner, Lovecraft related the dream he had had — described as " the most realistic and horrible I have experienced since the age of ten " — that served as the basis for his prose poem " Nyarlathotep ".

Whipporwills feature prominently as malign psychopomps in many works of H. P. Lovecraft, perhaps most notably in The Dunwich Horror.

In dark fantasy or horror the parallel world is often a hiding place for unpleasant things, and often the protagonist is forced to confront effects of this other world leaking into his own, as in most of the work of H. P. Lovecraft and the Doom computer game series, or Warhammer / 40K miniature and computer games.

His next Dunsanian tale, Celephaïs, was considered by Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi to be " one of his best and most significant ".

Baird first published some of Weird Tales most famous writers, including H. P. Lovecraft, C. M. Eddy, Jr., Clark Ashton Smith and Seabury Quinn, author of the hugely popular Jules de Grandin stories.

Lovecraft, most notably The Buckinghams, among others.

An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia calls the work " HPL's most significant literary essay and one of the finest historical analyses of horror literature.

* Belgian Jean Ray was, whithout a doubt, the most famous and influential author of fantastique of the period and is generally regarded by genre scholars as the French-language equivalent of Poe and Lovecraft.

Aside from his biography of Lovecraft, Joshi regards this book as his most notable achievement to date.

Among his most celebrated work for 2000 AD is the miniseries Necronauts ( 2000 – 01 ), in which Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Fort, and ( inevitably ) H. P. Lovecraft team up to defeat an incomprehensibly alien menace that seeks to destroy the human race.

In the 1995 movie In the Mouth of Madness, a pastiche of H. P. Lovecraft directed by John Carpenter, Hobbs End is the name of a New England town in the books of fictional horror author Sutter Cane, " this century's most widely-read author ".

Later in the year, Howard told Lovecraft, " The last yarn I sold to Weird Tales -- and it well may be the last fantasy I'll ever write -- was a three-part Conan serial which was the bloodiest and most sexy weird story I ever wrote.

In a 1936 letter to fellow Mythos writer Henry Kuttner, Lovecraft mentioned De Vermis Mysteriis as one of the books that " repeat the most hellish secrets learnt by early man ".