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 Country Under Heaven
ケントゥリア 1 [Kenturia 1] (Centuria, #1)
Bedside Manor (Tales from the Gas Station)
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The Faceless Thing We Adore
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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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H.P. Lovecraft
The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely. ...more
H.P. Lovecraft, Pickman's Model

H.P. Lovecraft
Some of them stole off to those cryptical realms which are known only to cats and which villagers say are on the moon's dark side, whither the cats leap from tall housetops; but one small black kitten crept upstairs and sprang in Carter's lap to purr and play, and curled up near his feet when he lay down at last on the little couch whose pillows were stuffed with fragrant drowsy herbs. ...more
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

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