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H.P. Lovecraft

Born

in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States

August 20, 1890

Died

March 15, 1937

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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Average rating: 3.93 · 955,207 ratings · 72,472 reviews · 7,144 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of Cthulhu 4.02 avg rating — 112,947 ratings — published 1928 — 1193 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 3.77 avg rating — 69,203 ratings — published 1936 — 983 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft 4.34 avg rating — 38,059 ratings — published 2020 — 307 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth (Editor), Robert Bloch (Introduction) 4.30 avg rating — 30,521 ratings — published 1963 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Shadow over Innsmouth 4.09 avg rating — 30,762 ratings — published 1936 — 620 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.25 avg rating — 25,109 ratings — published 1981 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 4.10 avg rating — 24,330 ratings — published 1941 — 456 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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 Colour Out of Space 4.05 avg rating — 23,518 ratings — published 1927 — 554 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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
	Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales by H.P. Lovecraft, Les Edwards (Illustrator), Stephen Jones (Afterword) 4.24 avg rating — 21,536 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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) 4.18 avg rating — 16,939 ratings — published 1963 — 59 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. 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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October 2015 Short Story Poll

1936, At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft, *128 pages

34 votes, 26.6%

1934, The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain, 116 pages

29 votes, 22.7%

1952, Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages

23 votes, 18.0%

1953, A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 25 pages Title Story

18 votes, 14.1%

1941, Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 98 pages

12 votes, 9.4%

1865, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk by Nikolai Leskov, 88 pages

5 votes, 3.9%

1936, Double Indemnity by James M. Cain, 115 pages

3 votes, 2.3%

1886, The Upper Berth by Francis Marion Crawford, 48 pages

2 votes, 1.6%

1897, Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham, 128 pages

2 votes, 1.6%

128 total votes

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