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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: 3.94 · 899,339 ratings · 65,917 reviews · 6,109 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of Cthulhu 4.01 avg rating — 118,643 ratings — published 1999 — 1507 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 3.78 avg rating — 64,206 ratings — published 1936 — 518 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 4.34 avg rating — 37,078 ratings — published 1936 — 339 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 — 30,241 ratings — published 1963 — 29 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 4.10 avg rating — 27,926 ratings — published 1936	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 4.25 avg rating — 24,861 ratings — published 1981 — 17 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 4.11 avg rating — 23,242 ratings — published 1941 — 527 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 Colour Out of Space 4.05 avg rating — 20,948 ratings — published 1927 — 577 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
	Νεκρονομικόν by H.P. Lovecraft, Abdul Alhazred, Tassos Roussos (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 16,463 ratings — published 2008 — 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 Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, August Derleth (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 16,624 ratings — published 1963 — 38 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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3.72 avg rating — 17,476 ratings

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3.78 avg rating — 2,794 ratings

The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft (2 books)
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April 2023 Short Story/Novella Poll

Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, 55 pages, 1997

48 votes, 23.6%

The Color Out of Space by H.P. Lovecraft, 25 pages, 1927

44 votes, 21.7%

The Overcoat by Nikolai Gogol, 24 pages, 1842

39 votes, 19.2%

A Hunger Artist by Franz Kafka84 pages, 1924

27 votes, 13.3%

The Driver's Seat by Muriel Spark, 103 pages, 1970

23 votes, 11.3%

In a Grove by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, 14 pages, 1922

11 votes, 5.4%

Mother Courage and Her Children by Bertolt Brecht, 105 pages, 1941

11 votes, 5.4%

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