" Derleth himself believed that Lovecraft wished for other authors to actively write about the myth-cycle as opposed to it being a discrete plot device.

Lovecraft himself adopted the stance of atheism early in his life.

Lovecraft considered himself a man best suited to the early 18th century.

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.

While Lovecraft did not refer to these categories himself, he did once write, " There are my ' Poe ' pieces and my ' Dunsany pieces ' – but alas – where are any Lovecraft pieces?

Regardless of the legal disagreements surrounding Lovecraft's works, Lovecraft himself was extremely generous with his own works and actively encouraged others to borrow ideas from his stories, particularly with regard to his Cthulhu mythos.

Lovecraft, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who once referred to himself as an " American Spenglerian.

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.

Night Gallery regularly presented adaptations of classic fantasy tales by authors such as H. P. Lovecraft, as well as original works, many of which were by Serling himself.

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.

The first recorded mention of Azathoth was in a note Lovecraft wrote to himself in 1919 that read simply, " AZATHOTH — hideous name ".

Another note Lovecraft made to himself later in 1919 refers to an idea for a story: " A terrible pilgrimage to seek the nighted throne of the far daemon-sultan Azathoth.

A number of contemporary critics, as well as Lovecraft himself, consider the story to be the best of all his Dunsanian tales.

The real Marblehead, as well as Lovecraft himself, appears in the 1985 Richard A. Lupoff novel Lovecraft's Book.

At the time of the discovery of the planet Pluto in 1930 Lovecraft himself very casually suggested, in a letter to a friend, that Yuggoth might " probably " be the same as Pluto.

This is a good instance of how Lovecraft gave himself license to be self-contradictory and vary his matter according to the artistic need of the moment, of which the diversity of conflicting situations within the whole sequence of sonnets is itself an example.

Includes references to the stories of H. P. Lovecraft and Lovecraft himself.

Although the author himself claimed that his inspiration was the newly-constructed Scituate Reservoir in Rhode Island, Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi believes that the planned Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts must have influenced him as well.

First, even though Newburyport was the inspiration for Innsmouth, it is clearly a separate location since Lovecraft himself placed the real-life Newburyport to the north of Innsmouth in " The Shadow Over Innsmouth ".

Early on in the story, Ted Vetter invokes Lovecraft himself: " Ever read Lovecraft?

The Necronomicon, as well as Lovecraft himself ( under a different name ), make cameo appearances in the game, along with well-known actors such as Jack Nicholson and Vincent Price.

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 ).

For this reason, it has been suggested that Lovecraft might as well be referred to as a member of a " Smith " circle as Smith as a member of a Lovecraft one.

In an homage to his friend, Lovecraft referred in some of his stories to a great dark wizard, " Klarkash-Ton.

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 ".

H. P. Lovecraft and Clark Ashton Smith referred to him as " Hugo the Rat.

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

Lovecraft referred to Azathoth again in " The Whisperer in Darkness " ( 1931 ), where the narrator relates that he " started with loathing when told of the monstrous nuclear chaos beyond angled space which the Necronomicon had mercifully cloaked under the name of Azathoth.

* H. P. Lovecraft referred to Levi several times in his novela The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.

Lovecraft referred to the " strange and disturbing paintings of Nicholas Roerich " in his Antarctic horror story At the Mountains of Madness.

Lovecraft scholar Donald R. Burleson referred to the tale as " one of his stylistically and conceptually finest short stories ".

Lovecraft scholar Charles P. Mitchell referred to the film as faithful to the author's original work, but claimed that " he last twenty minutes of the film are so disjointed that they virtually ruin the entire film ".

Yian is a fictional city created by Robert W. Chambers and also referred to by H. P. Lovecraft.

While giving his enthusiastic blessing, Lovecraft also suggested that the book featured in the story, named by Bloch as Mysteries of the Worm, be referred to instead by the Latin equivalent De Vermis Mysteriis.

Warren is referred to in other Lovecraft stories.

Price's dichotomy dictates the second stage commenced with August Derleth, the principal difference between Lovecraft and Derleth being the latter's use of hope and that the Cthulhu mythos essentially represented a struggle between good and evil.

As Lovecraft conceived the deities or forces of his mythos, there were, initially, the Elder Gods ... hese Elder Gods were benign deities, representing the forces of good, and existed peacefully ... very rarely stirring forth to intervene in the unceasing struggle between the powers of evil and the races of Earth.

While the Mi-go of Lovecraft's mythos is completely unlike the migou of Tibetan stories, Lovecraft seems to equate the two, as can be seen in the following excerpt from " The Whisperer in Darkness ":

Also highlighted and previewed were two original graphic novels: Lovecraft ( based on a screenplay by Hans Rodionoff and adapted by Keith Giffen with art by Enrique Breccia ) took the conceit that H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos creatures were real, to paint a highly fictionalized biographic portrait of the titular author, while Howard Chaykin & David Tischman's Barnum!

* Esoteric Order of Dagon, a fictional cult in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft

The Esoteric Order of Dagon is a fictional cult in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

The novel references events in " The Statement of Randolph Carter " and also includes Harley Warren ( from that Lovecraft story ) as a character, along with references to aspects of the Lovecraft mythos.

* H. P. Lovecraft often invoked the names of lost lands of his own invention, a practice that subsequently gave birth to the Cthulhu mythos.

* Zhar ( Great Old One ), a fictional deity in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft

Also, the creature from the stars which attacks Livia in the strange valley was intended to be from the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft, an intellectual correspondent of Howard.

A Deep One is a fictional being in the Cthulhu mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

Lovecraft refined this style of story-telling into his own mythos that involved a set of supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements.