" 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.

While Lovecraft never considered his pantheon of alien gods more than a mere plot device, Derleth created an entire cosmology, complete with a war between the good Elder Gods and the evil Outer Gods, such as Cthulhu and his ilk ).

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

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

Long was a friend and correspondent of Lovecraft, as well as a fellow fantasist who wrote a number of Lovecraft-influenced Cthulhu Mythos stories ( including The Hounds of Tindalos ).

Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright first rejected the story, and only accepted it after writer Donald Wandrei, a friend of Lovecraft's, falsely claimed that Lovecraft was thinking of submitting it elsewhere.

Lovecraft also used the word in " The Thing on the Doorstep " ( published 1937 ) where the narrator refers to the corpse of his friend which was possessed by a sorcerer.

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.

H. P. Lovecraft was a close friend and mentor to Frank Belknap Long, with whom he came in contact in 1920 when Long was but nineteen.

Twice in Worms of the Earth mention is made of the black gods of R ' lyeh, resting place of Cthulhu, creation of H. P. Lovecraft, a friend and correspondent of Howard.

Twice in Worms of the Earth Howard mentions the " black gods " of R ' lyeh, a fictional city created by his friend and correspondent H. P. Lovecraft.

Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff, Keith Giffen and Enrique Breccia was previewed for release during Vertigo's anniversary year, but ultimately saw print in Mar / May 2004.

Lovecraft published some of Long's early work in his Conservative ( e. g. Felis: A prose Poem 1923, about Long's pet cat ) and paid tribute to Long in a flattering article, " The Work of Frank Belknap Long, Jun .," published anonymously in the United Amateur ( May 1924 ) but clearly by Lovecraft. They first met when Lovecraft visited New York in April 1922.

" Celephaïs " is a fantasy story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written in early November 1920 and first published in the May 1922 issue of the Rainbow.

) album in May 2006 on Important Records, entitled Isle of Dark Magick, described in the press release as " a gem of free-improvised-found-sound-collage enriched with dark pagan folky vibes and supernatural horror noise dedicated to H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith and Austin Osman Spare.

First appearing in Lovecraft's 1920 prose poem of the same name, he was later mentioned in other works by Lovecraft and by other writers and in the tabletop roleplaying games making use of the Cthulhu Mythos.

" The Cats of Ulthar " is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in June 1920.

" The Terrible Old Man " is a very short story ( less than 1200 words ) by H. P. Lovecraft, written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921.

He first appeared in the Lovecraft short story " Celephaïs " ( 1920 ).

Lovecraft first used the name " Innsmouth " in his 1920 short story " Celephaïs " ( 1920 ), where it refers to a fictional village in England.

Lovecraft first used a New England setting for the 1920 short story " The Terrible Old Man ", set in Kingsport.

In the story that first mentions both Arkham and the Miskatonic Valley, " The Picture in the House " ( written later in 1920 ), Lovecraft wrote that " the true epicure of the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteem most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England ; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous.

Writer Will Murray noted that while Lovecraft often used his fictional pantheon in the stories he ghostwrote for other authors, he reserved Arkham and its environs exclusively for those tales he wrote under his own name.

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

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 ").

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

Contemporary French writer Michel Houellebecq wrote a literary biography of Lovecraft called H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life.

Prolific American writer Joyce Carol Oates wrote an introduction for a collection of Lovecraft stories.

* H. P. Lovecraft discussed this idea of time travel in a 1930 letter to Clark Ashton Smith, where he wrote:

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.

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 ".

Lovecraft wrote a play called Alcestis.

Lovecraft wrote a poem about the mountain entitled To Templeton and Mount Monadnock

Price also notes that Lovecraft admired the work of Lord Dunsany, who wrote The Gods of Pegana ( 1905 ), which depicts a god constantly lulled to sleep to avoid the consequences of its reawakening.

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

Occasionally the magazine would publish Lovecraftian pastiches presented as pieces of " lost " Lovecraft completed by his self-appointed literary executor August Derleth, who also wrote fiction for the magazine under his own name.

H. P. Lovecraft wrote, " In ' The Dead Valley ' the eminent architect and mediævalist Ralph Adams Cram achieves a memorably potent degree of vague regional horror through subtleties of atmosphere and description.

( H. P. Lovecraft sometimes wrote about shuggoths, although not precisely in the same sense.

Lovecraft, an American science fiction and horror writer, wrote " Dunwich Horror " and " The Color Out of Space ", two short stories which took place in the valley before it was flooded for the reservoir.

Lovecraft wrote back: " So the Halsey house is haunted!

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 ".