Lovecraftian

Lovecraftian horror is a sub-genre of horror fiction which emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown (in some cases, unknowable). It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Lovecraft refined this style of storytelling into his own mythos that involved a set of supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements. His work was inspired by and similar to previous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood and Lord Dunsany. The hallmark of Lovecraft's work is cosmicism: the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in co ...more

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The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, 14)
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The Country Under Heaven
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Bedside Manor (Tales from the Gas Station)
Slayers of Old
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The Backbone of the World
The Faceless Thing We Adore
The Night That Finds Us All
The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)
The Call of Cthulhu
At the Mountains of Madness
The Fisherman
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Ballad of Black Tom
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Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Dagon
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The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
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Stephen  King
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons, even death may die. —H. P. Lovecraft ...more
Stephen King, Revival

H.P. Lovecraft
By noon Carter reached the jasper terraces of Kiran which slope down to the river's edge and bear that temple of loveliness wherein the King of Ilek-Vad comes from his far realm on the twilight sea once a year in a golden palanquin to pray to the god of Oukranos, who sang to him in youth when he dwelt in a cottage by its banks. All of jasper is that temple, and covering an acre of ground with its walls and courts, its seven pinnacled towers, and its inner shrine where the river enters through hi ...more
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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