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)
The Regicide Report (Laundry Files, 14)
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The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)
Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)
The Country Under Heaven
ケントゥリア 1 [Kenturia 1] (Centuria, #1)
Bedside Manor (Tales from the Gas Station)
Slayers of Old
Ascension
Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four (Tales from the Gas Station #4)
H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth
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
Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Dagon
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
The Colour Out of Space
The Dunwich Horror
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H.P. Lovecraft's Graphic Novels
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Folk Horror
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Cosmic Horror
95 books — 14 voters
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Cosmic & Lovecraftian Horror
237 books — 101 voters


H.P. Lovecraft
The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!
H.P. Lovecraft, Dagon et autres nouvelles de terreur

H.P. Lovecraft
The basis of all true cosmic horror is violation of the order of nature, and the profoundest violations are always the least concrete and describable.
H.P. Lovecraft, Selected Letters III: 1929-1931

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