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 emphasised the point by stating in the opening sentence of the story that " The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

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 ".

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 ).

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.

An early version of Ray Bradbury's " The Exiles " uses Lovecraft as a character, who makes a brief, 600-word appearance eating ice cream in front of a fire and complaining about how cold he is.

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

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 character was created by writer H. P. Lovecraft.

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 ".

* Zadok Allen, a character in the H. P. Lovecraft novella The Shadow Over Innsmouth

** Robert Harrison Blake, fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft

Cthylla ( the Secret Daughter of Cthulhu ) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

He also portrayed the part of author H. P. Lovecraft ( creator of the Herbert West character ) in 1993's film Necronomicon: Book of the Dead.

An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia compares Willett's character to other " valiant counterweight " in Lovecraft such as Thomas Malone in " The Horror at Red Hook " ( 1925 ) and Henry Armitage in " The Dunwich Horror "; like Willett, Armitage " defeats the ' villains ' by incantations, and he is susceptible to the same flaws -- pomposity, arrogance, self-importance -- that can be seen in Willett.

Still in this bleak panorama there are some curious cases like Cthulhu ( 2007 ) a horror / thriller film based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, in which the main character is gay but it isn't the main thing, although it is important in the development of the character's psychology.

These included " The Hounds of Tindalos " ( the first Mythos story written by anyone other than Lovecraft ), The Horror from the Hills ( which introduced the elephantine Great Old One Chaugnar Faugn to the Mythos ), and " The Space-Eaters " ( featuring a fictionalized HPL as its main character ).

Ithaqua ( the Wind-Walker or the Wendigo ) is a fictional character in the Cthulhu Mythos of H. P. Lovecraft.

Lovecraft in the 1991 HBO TV movie Cast a Deadly Spell alongside Julianne Moore, he decided to only play co-starring roles as a character actor in the thriller Thunderheart, the Hollywood satire The Player, the mystery-drama Equinox and the TV western-comedy Four Eyes and Six Guns.

Herbert West is a fictional character created by H. P. Lovecraft for his short story " Herbert West — Reanimator ", first published in 1922.

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.

* Him Who Is Not to be Named, fictional character Hastur originated by H. P. Lovecraft

An ongoing theme in Lovecraft's work is the complete irrelevance of mankind in the face of the cosmic horrors that apparently exist in the universe, with Lovecraft constantly referring to the " Great Old Ones ": a loose pantheon of ancient, powerful deities from space who once ruled the Earth and who have since fallen into a deathlike sleep.

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.

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.

Lovecraft had specified that the young R. H. Barlow would serve as executor of his literary estate, but these instructions had not been incorporated into his will.

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 ".

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.

Lovecraft's attempts to work this idea into a novel floundered ( a 500-word fragment survives, first published under the title " Azathoth " in the journal Leaves in 1938 ), although Lovecraftian scholar Will Murray suggests that Lovecraft recycled the idea into his Dream Cycle novella The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, written in 1926.

Lovecraft into German.

H. P. Lovecraft and many of his imitators were great admirers of Chambers ' book and incorporated many of his characters and symbols into their own works.

Later writers, including H. P. Lovecraft and his many admirers, became great fans of Chambers ' work and incorporated the name of Carcosa into their own stories, set in the Cthulhu Mythos.

* Guy de Maupassant followed in the footsteps of Poe, and anticipated H. P. Lovecraft, becoming obsessed with the notion of slow descent into madness caused by fearsome otherworldly forces.

* Chez Cthulhu: Chez Geek dips into the Lovecraft Mythos, with elements of the horror genre, and adds Madness points, which hinder you in small amounts, but help you in larger amounts.

Serannian is a " pink marble city of the clouds, which is built on that ethereal coast where the west wind flows into the sky " (" Celephaïs ", Lovecraft ).

The vale is filled with a mountain-sized heap of bones and is " the spot into which all the ghouls of the waking world cast the refuse of their feastings " ( The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, Lovecraft ).

De Vermis Mysteriis, or Mysteries of the Worm, is a fictional grimoire created by Robert Bloch and incorporated by H. P. Lovecraft into the lore of the Cthulhu Mythos.

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

Lovecraft and MAX's Haunt of Horror, but also the incorporation of the Mythos into new stories.