H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and died in 1937., H. P. Lovecraft has written at least 822 books. Their most popular book is The Call of Cthulhu with 494 saves with an average rating of 3.77⭐.
Author Bio
An American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.
[Comment by Russell Hoban from The Guardian][1]:
> The main thing about HP Lovecraft is his too-muchness; he never uses three adjectives when five will do, but he writes words that haunt the memory: "In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." My recall of the multiplication table is shaky but those words disquiet me today as freshly as when I first read them.
> Where did dead Cthulhu come from? Why did he rise up from the murky depths of Lovecraft's mental ocean? I say it's because there is a need for him and the rest of the maestro's monsters. Why is there such an appetite, such a hunger for scary stories and films? I think there is a primal horror in us. From where? From the Big Bang when Something came out of Nothing? From the nothingness we must become at life's end? I don't know, but I know it's there and we like to dress it up with a bolt through its neck or a black rubber alien suit; or as Cthulhu. Get a load of this: "A pulpy, tentacled head surmounted a grotesque and scaly body with rudimentary wings", with elements of "an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature", "but it was the general outline of the whole that made it most shockingly frightful". Close your eyes and try to imagine this creature of non-Darwinian evolution. Just the look of this bozo is already a major horror, and we're not even into the story yet. While he's dead and dreaming in his house at R'lyeh ("Dun Foamin"?) his Cthulhuvibes are spreading worldwide and causing strange rites and observances here and there. Lovecraft is not everybody's mug of Ovaltine but I have always found him horribly cosy.
[1]: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/may/14/science-fiction-authors-choice
19 Dark Adventure Radio Theatre
1926 • 494 Readers • 64 pages • 3.8
19 Dark Adventure Radio Theatre
1931 • 367 Readers • 268 pages • 3.8
1944 • 127 Readers • 255 pages • 3.8
1977 • 115 Readers • 896 pages • 4.2
77 Readers • 3.4
1941 • 74 Readers • 135 pages • 4.1
2 Présence du Futur / Folio
1927 • 62 Readers • 78 pages • 4.1
2016 • 60 Readers • 476 pages • 4.2
1929 • 57 Readers • 42 pages • 3.7
1924 • 55 Readers • 25 pages • 3.6
1978 • 54 Readers • 811 pages • 4.4
1963 • 50 Readers • 289 pages • 4.4
1937 • 39 Readers • 463 pages • 4.2
1936 • 39 Readers • 76 pages • 3.7
1933 • 38 Readers • 480 pages • 3.7
1919 • 37 Readers • 50 pages • 3.8
1928 • 35 Readers • 512 pages • 2.9
1921 • 34 Readers • 17 pages • 3.1
1978 • 32 Readers • 811 pages • 4.2
33 Dream Cycle
1943 • 31 Readers • 241 pages • 3.9
1931 • 30 Readers • 136 pages • 3.5
#1 of 5 in Randolph Carter
1920 • 30 Readers • 60 pages • 3.5
1922 • 30 Readers • 3.5
1926 • 30 Readers • 28 pages • 3.1
#0 of 2 in The Diogenes Club
1994 • 29 Readers • 468 pages • 3.9
1920 • 27 Readers • 3.1
26 Readers • 22m • 3.2
#2 of 15 in Gou Tanabe's Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's Masterpieces
2016 • 25 Readers • 302 pages • 4.3
1927 • 25 Readers • 15 pages • 3.8
1934 • 24 Readers • 387 pages • 4
1996 • 23 Readers • 379 pages • 4.1
1987 • 23 Readers • 1,028 pages • 4.5
1937 • 23 Readers • 1,112 pages • 4.6
1917 • 23 Readers • 3.4
1937 • 22 Readers • 40 pages • 3.9
21 Readers • 370 pages • 3.6
1940 • 21 Readers • 593 pages • 4.2
1925 • 20 Readers • 24 pages • 3
1918 • 19 Readers • 11 pages • 2.9
1927 • 19 Readers • 48 pages • 2.4
1936 • 18 Readers • 1,361 pages • 4.3
1926 • 16 Readers • 34 pages • 3
16 Readers • 4
#2 of 2 in The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus
1965 • 15 Readers • 448 pages • 4
1921 • 15 Readers • 14 pages • 3.6
1991 • 15 Readers • 600 pages • 4.3
1926 • 14 Readers • 70 pages • 4
7 Culbard's Lovecraft
2010 • 14 Readers • 128 pages • 3.3
1929 • 14 Readers • 96 pages • 3.6
14 Readers • 204 pages • 3.8
2020 • 14 Readers • 237 pages • 3.8
1919 • 14 Readers • 13 pages • 2.3
1921 • 13 Readers • 3.2
1922 • 13 Readers • 175 pages • 4
#1 of 2 in New Annotated Lovecraft
2014 • 13 Readers • 852 pages • 5
2002 • 13 Readers • 368 pages • 4
#3 of 15 in Gou Tanabe's Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's Masterpieces
2017 • 13 Readers • 344 pages • 4.6
1921 • 13 Readers • 88 pages • 3.4
1924 • 13 Readers • 30 pages • 3.9
2011 • 12 Readers • 540 pages • 4.7
1935 • 12 Readers • 48 pages • 3.9
1936 • 12 Readers • 1,703 pages • 4
1925 • 12 Readers • 30 pages • 3.8
1934 • 12 Readers • 99 pages • 3.6
1927 • 11 Readers • 35 pages • 4.1
#2 of 2 in New Annotated Lovecraft
2019 • 11 Readers • 512 pages • 3
1922 • 11 Readers • 78 pages • 3.8
2023 • 11 Readers • 3.8
19 Dark Adventure Radio Theatre
1923 • 10 Readers • 3.3
1923 • 10 Readers • 19 pages • 3.1
2011 • 10 Readers • 1,342 pages • 3.5
7 Culbard's Lovecraft
1943 • 10 Readers • 144 pages • 3.1
1965 • 10 Readers • 3
10 Readers • 1.6
1944 • 9 Readers • 1,056 pages
21 Chaosium's Call of Cthulhu books
1993 • 9 Readers • 313 pages • 4
1938 • 9 Readers • 5 pages • 3.1
2018 • 9 Readers • 34 pages • 4.5
2011 • 9 Readers • 562 pages • 4.5
1938 • 9 Readers • 7 pages • 2.6
2007 • 9 Readers • 336 pages • 2
1926 • 9 Readers • 77 pages • 4
1919 • 9 Readers • 3.3
9 Readers
1941 • 9 Readers • 192 pages • 3.6
#3 of 2 in The H.P. Lovecraft Omnibus
1935 • 8 Readers • 544 pages • 4.4
2012 • 8 Readers • 3.8
2009 • 8 Readers • 969 pages • 4