H.P. Lovecraft

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born

in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States

August 20, 1890

died

March 15, 1937

gender

male

website

http://www.hplovecraft.com/

genre

Horror, Weird Fiction, Short Stories

influences

Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Chambers, Clark Ashton Smith, Arthur Machen, L...more

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mir...more

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H.P. Lovecraft's Books

Average rating: 4.18 · 132,330 ratings · 5,576 reviews · 826 distinct works · Similar authors

	The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth (Editor), Robert Bloch (Introduction) 4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 14,272 ratings — published 1963 — 7 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 15,230 ratings — published 1926 — 66 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror 4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 11,608 ratings — published 1939 — 18 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor), China Miéville (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 5,703 ratings — published 1936 — 74 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Road to Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, Barbara Hambly (Goodreads Author) (introduction) 4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 4,586 ratings — published 1996 — 5 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shadows over Innsmouth by H.P. Lovecraft (Contributor), Stephen Jones (Editor), Kim Newman (Contributor) 4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 4,326 ratings — published 1931	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward 4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 4,842 ratings — published 1927 — 60 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 3,736 ratings — published 1937 — 14 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, August Derleth (Editor) 4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 3,362 ratings — published 1945 — 20 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft: Dreams of Terror and Death by H.P. Lovecraft, E. Hoffman Price, Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 3,226 ratings — published 1995 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by H.P. Lovecraft

Άπαντα του H.P. Lovecraft (4 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft, Στέφανος Καμάρης (Translator)
4.245786410702139 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 13,231 ratings

Os Melhores Contos de H.P. Lovecraft (5 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft, Marta Oliveira (Translator), José Manuel Lopes (Editor), João Henrique Pinto (Translator), Vítor Morta (Translator), Susana Clara (Translator)
4.181818181818182 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 110 ratings

Narrativa completa Lovecraft (2 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft, Juan Antonio Molina Foix (Editor)
4.511111111111111 of 5 stars 4.51 avg rating — 90 ratings

Kootut teokset (5 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft, Ilkka Äärelä (Translator), Matti Rosvall (Translator)
3.6714285714285713 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 70 ratings

Lovecraft Library (2 books)
by H.P. Lovecraft, Sam Shearon (Illustrator), Robert Weinberg (Introduction)
4.32258064516129 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 31 ratings

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Quotes by H.P. Lovecraft

“From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Tales of H. P. Lovecraft

tags: horror, irony

1,122 people liked it

“Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.”
― H.P. Lovecraft

tags: dance, dancing, life

870 people liked it

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

tags: fear-of-unknown

745 people liked it

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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward by H.P. Lovecraft

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