H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was born in 1890 and died in 1937., H. P. Lovecraft has written at least 758 books. Their most popular book is The Call of Cthulhu with 472 saves with an average rating of 3.76⭐.

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

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Details	Rating	Readers Count
The Picture In The House: Short Story H. P. Lovecraft	2.5	2 reads
50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol 50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1 Dante Alighieri Jane Austen Honoré de Balzac Charlotte Brontë Anne Brontë Emily Brontë Samuel Butler Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Joseph Conrad Daniel Defoe Fyodor Dostoevsky Arthur Conan Doyle Alexandre Dumas George Eliot Gustave Flaubert Charlotte Perkins Gilman Nikolai Gogol Jacob Grimm Homer Victor Hugo Washington Irving Henry James James Joyce D.H. Lawrence Gaston Leroux Jack London Arthur Machen Herman Melville Marcel Proust Mary Shelley Stendhal Robert Louis Stevenson Bram Stoker Sun Tzu Jonathan Swift William Makepeace Thackeray Leo Tolstoy Mark Twain Oscar Wilde Marcus Aurelius Francis Bacon Benjamin Franklin Plato William Shakespeare Charles Darwin Charles Eliot John Woolman William Penn Thomas Browne Adam Smith Aesop Lord Byron Alessandro Manzoni Pierre Corneille Ben Jonson Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Presbourg Press H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
A cor que caiu do espaço H. P. Lovecraft	3	1 read
Tales of Horror H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
The Color Out of Space The Color Out of Space H. P. Lovecraft	2	1 read
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Tales The Call of Cthulhu and Other Tales H. P. Lovecraft	4	1 read
Brooklyn Noir 2: The Classics	0	0 reads
Il dominatore delle tenebre. Il meglio dei racconti H. P. Lovecraft	4	1 read
Tutti i racconti n. 4: 1931-1936 H. P. Lovecraft Claudio De Nardi (translator) Gianna Lonza (translator)	3	1 read
The Haunter of the Dark and Other Grotesque Visions H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Metamorfoze	5	1 read
La llamada de cthulhu: relatos y poemas del espacio sideral H. P. Lovecraft	0	1 read
Los mitos de Cthulhu Alberto Breccia H. P. Lovecraft	3.5	2 reads
La casa maldita La casa maldita H. P. Lovecraft	4.5	2 reads
La llamada de Cthulhu y otro relato H. P. Lovecraft	4	2 reads
The Green Meadow The Green Meadow H. P. Lovecraft	2	1 read
La Llave de Plata La Llave de Plata H. P. Lovecraft	3	2 reads
The Rats In The Walls & Other Tales H. P. Lovecraft	0	2 reads
La bestia de la cueva H. P. Lovecraft	2	2 reads
La tumba La tumba H. P. Lovecraft	4.5	2 reads
El viejo Bugs H. P. Lovecraft	3	2 reads
Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories Call of Cthulhu and Other Stories H. P. Lovecraft	3.5	2 reads
H.P. Lovecraft: Medo Clássico - Ramon Mapa (Translator) H. P. Lovecraft	3.5	2 reads
Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos	0	2 reads
Memoria H. P. Lovecraft	2	2 reads
Grimoire Mitchell Lüthi C.L. Werner Madison Kilian Erica Schaef Justin Fillmore H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
The Mammoth Book of Zombies Clive Barker Ramsey Campbell Manly Wade Wellman Dennis Etchison Brian Lumley Edgar Allan Poe Robert Blotch Joe R. Lansdale R. Chetwynd-Hayes Karl Edward Wagner Charles L. Grant Basil Copper M.R. James Nicholas Royle Lisa Tuttle David Riley Graham Masterton J. Sheridan Le Fanu David A. Sutton Les Daniels Hugh B. Cave Michael Marshall Smith Peter Tremayne Kim Newman H. P. Lovecraft Christopher Fowler	3	1 read
La ciudad sin nombre H. P. Lovecraft	5	2 reads
Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 H. P. Lovecraft	0	1 read
Halloween Halloween	0	0 reads
Los gatos de Ulthar H. P. Lovecraft	3	1 read
El sabueso H. P. Lovecraft	5	2 reads
Chilling Horror Short Stories Chilling Horror Short Stories Flame Tree Studio	0	0 reads
The Complete Fiction The Complete Fiction: At the Mountains of Madness, The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Shadow over Innsmouth, ... H. P. Lovecraft	5	1 read
El ceremonial H. P. Lovecraft	1	2 reads
La maldición que cayó sobre Sarnath H. P. Lovecraft	3.5	2 reads
The Lurking Fear The Lurking Fear: Collected Short Stories Volume Four H. P. Lovecraft	3	1 read
Los otros dioses H. P. Lovecraft	4	2 reads
The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories The Big Book of the Masters of Horror, Weird and Supernatural Short Stories: 120+ authors and 1000+ stories in one volume Cynthia Asquith Leonid Andreyev E.F. Benson Ambrose Bierce Algernon Blackwood Marjorie Bowen John Buchan Robert W. Chambers Myla Jo Closser Wilkie Collins Richard Connell Aleister Crowley F. Marion Crawford Rebecca Harding Davis Walter de la Mare Charles Dickens Arthur Conan Doyle Lord Dunsany Amelia B. Edwards Anatole France Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Elizabeth Gaskell Nikolai Gogol William Fryer Harvey L.P. Hartley Nathaniel Hawthorne Lafcadio Hearn O. Henry Robert Smythe Hichens William Hope Hodgson E.T.A. Hoffmann Robert E. Howard Violet Hunt Washington Irving W.W. Jacobs Henry James M.R. James Franz Kafka Rudyard Kipling J. Sheridan Le Fanu Vernon Lee Arthur Machen Guy de Maupassant John Metcalfe Charlotte Perkins Gilman H. P. Lovecraft Mrs. Oliphant Oliver Onions Vincent O’Sullivan Edgar Allan Poe Saki M.P. Shiel Clark Ashton Smith Mark Twain H. Russell Wakefield Edith Wharton Oscar Wilde Virginia Woolf Alfred McClelland Burrage Edith Nesbit Bram Stoker Robert Louis Stevenson Willa Cather Walter Scott H. G. Wells	0	0 reads
Bestiario Elvio E. Gandolfo (Translator) H. P. Lovecraft	3	2 reads
El árbol H. P. Lovecraft	3.5	2 reads
El ser en el umbral H. P. Lovecraft	5	2 reads
La cueva secreta H. P. Lovecraft	2.5	2 reads
Przyszła na Sarnath zagłada. Opowieści niesamowite i fantastyczne H. P. Lovecraft Maciej Płaza (Translator)	0	0 reads
Imprisoned with the Pharaohs H. P. Lovecraft	3	2 reads
Zgroza w Dunwich i inne przerażające opowieści H. P. Lovecraft Maciej Płaza (Translator)	4	1 read
La transición de Juan Romero H. P. Lovecraft	4	2 reads
La dulce Ermengarde H. P. Lovecraft	3	2 reads
Eclissi. Storie all'ombra della luna H. G. Wells Thomas Crofton Croker Bernard Capes Charles Dickens H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, Vol 1 Clark Ashton Smith Robert E. Howard Frank Belknap Long Henry Kuttner H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Doug Bradley's Spinechillers, Vol. 1 Edgar Allan Poe Charles Dickens H. P. Lovecraft William Fryer Harvey	5	1 read
Necronomicon Necronomicon: The Best Weird Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
The H. P. Lovecraft Collection The H. P. Lovecraft Collection: 65 Scary Stories from the King of Horror H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
O Horror De Dunwich H. P. Lovecraft	3	0 reads
The Dunwhich Horror The Dunwhich Horror H. P. Lovecraft	4	2 reads
El color que cayó del espacio El color que cayó del espacio Colectivo Lovecraft BdL (Translator) H. P. Lovecraft	3.5	2 reads
H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft: Great Tales of Horror H. P. Lovecraft	4	2 reads
Waking Up Screaming: Haunting Tales of Terror H. P. Lovecraft	3	2 reads
H.P. Lovecraft H.P. Lovecraft: The Fiction: Complete and Unabridged H. P. Lovecraft	4.5	2 reads
Haunted House Short Stories Ramsey Campbell John Everson Rebecca Buchanan H.B. Diaz Tom English Marina Favila Shannon Fay Adele Gardner Gwendolyn Kiste Bill Kte'pi Kurt Newton M. Regan Zach Shephard Morgan Sylvia Mikal Trimm E.F. Benson Ambrose Bierce Mary Elizabeth Braddon Rhoda Broughton Edward Bulwer-Lytton Bernard Capes Ralph Adams Cram B.M. Croker J. Sheridan Le Fanu Mary E. Wilkins Freeman Elizabeth Gaskell O. Henry William Hope Hodgson W.W. Jacobs M.R. James Rudyard Kipling Guy de Maupassant Edith Nesbit Vincent O'Sullivan Mrs. Oliphant Edgar Allan Poe Arthur Quiller-Couch Charlotte Riddell Mark Twain Hugh Walpole Edith Wharton Charlotte Perkins Gilman H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft The Complete Tales of H.P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
I gatti di Ulthar I gatti di Ulthar H. P. Lovecraft	3.5	2 reads
La calle H. P. Lovecraft	1.5	2 reads
Eldritch Tales: A Miscellany of the Macabre H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Le Cycle de Providence H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
A Solstice Carol	0	1 read
Medusan kasvot: kirjoituksia kauhusta Timo Hännikäinen	0	1 read
Bad Medicine	0	1 read
Felices pesadillas: Los mejores relatos de terror aparecidos en Valdemar, 1987-2003 Charles Nodier Wilkie Collins Claude Vignon Ambrose Bierce Bram Stoker Guy de Maupassant Robert Louis Stevenson F. Marion Crawford Washington Irving Arthur Conan Doyle M.R. James W.W. Jacobs Arthur Quiller-Couch Arthur Machen Rudyard Kipling W.B. Yeats H. G. Wells E.F. Benson Honoré de Balzac William Hope Hodgson Horacio Quiroga Richard Barham Middleton Henry S. Whitehead Franz Kafka Robert E. Howard Richard Matheson Pilar Pedraza Alexandre Dumas Nathaniel Hawthorne Edgar Allan Poe Théophile Gautier Charles Dickens J. Sheridan Le Fanu Fitz-James O'Brien Hugh Harvey Saki H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
H.P. Lovecraft Goes to the Movies: The Classic Stories that Inspired the Classic Horror Films H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Cthulhu'nun Çağrısı ve Diğer Tuhaf Öyküler Cthulhu'nun Çağrısı ve Diğer Tuhaf Öyküler H. P. Lovecraft	5	1 read
Cthulhu'nun Çağrısı Cthulhu'nun Çağrısı Dost Körpe (Translator) H. P. Lovecraft	5	1 read
Mad Science	0	1 read
Cthulhu : Le Mythe, Livre 1 H. P. Lovecraft	0	1 read
La sombra fuera del tiempo y otros relatos	4	1 read
Cthulhu : Le Mythe, Livre 2 H. P. Lovecraft	0	1 read
Night's Yawning Peal	0	0 reads
The Loved Dead and Other Revisions H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Intégrale H. P. Lovecraft Intégrale H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
The Lovecraft Investigations: The Case of Charles Dexter Ward Julian Simpson	0	1 read
Le cauchemar d'Innsmouth Gou Tanabe	5	1 read
Los Mitos de Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft	0	1 read
The Allowable Rhyme The Allowable Rhyme H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Lovecraft Short Stories	0	0 reads
Shadows of Death: Terrifying Tales by H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft	2	1 read
H P Lovecraft obras completas Tomo 1 H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Don't open this book!	0	0 reads
The Innsmouth Cycle The Innsmouth Cycle: The Taint of the Deep Ones	4	1 read
El devorador de fantasmas C.M. Eddy Jr. H. P. Lovecraft	4	1 read
The Dunwich Horror / The Thing on the Doorstep H. P. Lovecraft	3	1 read
Celui qui hantait les ténèbres Gou Tanabe	0	0 reads
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror Roald Dahl Reader's Digest Association C.S. Forester Shirley Jackson Arthur Conan Doyle Edgar Allan Poe Truman Capote Guy de Maupassant John Russell Algernon Blackwood John Collier G. K. Chesterton Alfred Noyes M. R. James Ray Bradbury Leslie Charteris Lord Dunsany Ellery Queen Ambrose Bierce Daphne Du Maurier Thomas Burke Robert Barr John Dickson Carr André Maurois Richard Barham Middleton Cornell Woolrich Gilbert Highet A.M. Burrage Ian Fleming Gertrude Atherton Carl Stephenson W. W. Jacobs George Hitchcock William Hope Hodgson Ross McDonald Rudyard Kipling Georges Simenon Robert Bloch Stanley Ellin H. G. Wells Eric Stanley Gardner Saki Arthur C. Clarke Agatha Christie Evelyn Waugh H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
Les Contrées du rêve H. P. Lovecraft	5	1 read
Le Molosse Gou Tanabe	3	1 read
Par-delà le mur du sommeil H. P. Lovecraft	4	1 read
The Starry Wisdom The Starry Wisdom : A Tribute to H.P. Lovecraft	0	1 read
The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft The Complete Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft: H. P. Lovecraft	0	0 reads
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-time Greats	4	0 reads
H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror #1 H.P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror #1: Book Edition John Gregory Betancourt	0	1 read