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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: 3.98 · 746,026 ratings · 50,304 reviews · 4,191 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of Cthulhu 3.97 avg rating — 59,034 ratings — published 1928 — 2144 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 3.82 avg rating — 51,924 ratings — published 1931 — 1781 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 Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor) 4.16 avg rating — 46,662 ratings — published 1926 — 144 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 — 29,327 ratings — published 1963 — 32 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 4.26 avg rating — 24,188 ratings — published 1981 — 6 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 4.11 avg rating — 20,644 ratings — published 1936 — 7 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 4.13 avg rating — 20,060 ratings — published 1941 — 193 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 4.36 avg rating — 17,296 ratings — published 1978 — 80 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 4.18 avg rating — 17,164 ratings — published 1977 — 103 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) 4.19 avg rating — 15,532 ratings — published 1929 — 62 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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August Derleth (Introduction)

4.18 avg rating — 9,188 ratings

Spisy (5 books)
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František Jungwirth (translator),

Václav Kajdoš (translator),

Zdeněk Lyčka (translator),

Viola Lyčková (translator),

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