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  <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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 mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.

Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades.  He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.

Please refer to the &lt;a href=&quot;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hp_lovecraft&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HP Lovecraft wiki stub&lt;/a&gt; or the &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.hplovecraft.com&quot; target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;HP Lovecraft Archive&lt;/a&gt; for more information regarding the master of cosmic horror.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Edgar Allen Poe, Robert Chambers, Clark Ashton Smith, Arthur Machen, Lord Dunsany, Robert E. Howard]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Providence, Rhode Island</hometown>  <born_at>12/13/1901</born_at>  <died_at>03/15/1937</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[August Derleth]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1462368]]></link>
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  <average_rating>4.26</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>2012</ratings_count>
  <published>1982</published>  
  
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        <book id="160149">
  <title><![CDATA[The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[S.T. Joshi]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.19</average_rating>
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  <published>1926</published>  
  
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        <book id="32769">
  <title><![CDATA[At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.12</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1396</ratings_count>
  <published>1964</published>  
  
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        <book id="36321">
  <title><![CDATA[Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.22</average_rating>
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  <published>1987</published>  
  
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        <book id="36320">
  <title><![CDATA[Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.20</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>664</ratings_count>
  <published>1969</published>  
  
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        <book id="129327">
  <title><![CDATA[The Case of Charles Dexter Ward]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.17</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>539</ratings_count>
  <published>1941</published>  
  
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        <book id="564317">
  <title><![CDATA[The Lurking Fear and Other Stories]]></title>
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    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.22</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>504</ratings_count>
  <published>1971</published>  
  
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        <book id="36317">
  <title><![CDATA[The Transition of H. P. Lovecraft: The Road to Madness]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Barbara Hambly]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.28</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>489</ratings_count>
  <published>1996</published>  
  
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        <book id="36313">
  <title><![CDATA[Lovecraft Tales]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.31</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>476</ratings_count>
  <published>2005</published>  
  
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        <book id="36316">
  <title><![CDATA[The Doom That Came to Sarnath (A Del Rey Book)]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[H.P. Lovecraft]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.09</average_rating>
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  <published>1971</published>  
  
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