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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: 3.99 · 703,570 ratings · 46,225 reviews · 4,280 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of Cthulhu 3.97 avg rating — 53,057 ratings — published 1928 — 2107 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) 4.17 avg rating — 44,958 ratings — published 1926 — 145 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 3.83 avg rating — 48,104 ratings — published 1931 — 23 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 — 29,017 ratings — published 1963 — 34 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 — 23,909 ratings — published 1981 — 18 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 4.14 avg rating — 19,114 ratings — published 1941 — 629 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 4.12 avg rating — 18,509 ratings — published 1936 — 1025 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 4.35 avg rating — 16,765 ratings — published 1978 — 83 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 4.22 avg rating — 15,491 ratings — published 2008 — 89 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 — 15,159 ratings — published 1929 — 58 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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