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unusual facts about H P Lovecraft



Paul Edwin Zimmer

In his Dark Border novels Paul uses a lot of names that would be familiar to fans of both his sister and H P Lovecraft, such as Carcosa, Hastur, Hali and Hyades amongst others.


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Alhazred

Abdul Alhazred, a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft

Asenath

Asenath is also the name of a character in H.P. Lovecraft's "The Thing on the Doorstep."

Call of Cthulhu

"The Call of Cthulhu", the original 1928 short story by H. P. Lovecraft

Dirk W. Mosig

His article "H. P. Lovecraft: Myth Maker" (1976) takes issue with August Derleth's interpretation of Lovecraft's work and emphasises the latter's vision of an amoral cosmos in which humanity has little significance.

Divers hands

Each was bylined "H. P. Lovecraft and Divers Hands", and each included original stories and poems by H. P. Lovecraft as well as derivative works and essays by other notables, including Fritz Leiber and Jack L. Chalker.

F. Orlin Tremaine

Tremaine remained editor until 1937, during which time he bought such important stories as H.P. Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness (sold by Julius Schwartz) and The Shadow Out of Time (sold by Donald Wandrei), apparently without reading them.

Harley Warren

The H.P. Lovecraft Historical society did a song entitled "Harley got devoured by the undead", a parody of "Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer".

Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft

Lurker in the Lobby: A Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft is a non-fiction book by Andrew Migliore and John Strysik analysing the influence of Providence author H. P. Lovecraft in the world of cinema.

Nick Basile

His acting credits include roles in the Off-Broadway production of Tony n' Tina's Wedding, H.P. Lovecraft (LoveCracked! The Movie) and has appeared in Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing at the Gene Frankel Theatre in NYC.

Reanimator

Herbert West–Reanimator, a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written 1921-1922

Re-Animator, a 1985 film, the first in a series of films based on the H.P. Lovecraft story Herbert West–Reanimator

Red Hook

The Horror at Red Hook, a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, set in Red Hook, Brooklyn

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture

The Cult of Alien Gods: H. P. Lovecraft and Extraterrestrial Pop Culture is a 2005 book by Jason Colavito, a contributor to Skeptic magazine, and published by Prometheus Books.

The House on the Borderland

Its most popular version was by Arkham House Press, Sauk City, Wisconsin, in 1946 as part of The House on the Borderland and Other Novels, the same publishers that brought out many books by other authors of weird fiction, such as H. P. Lovecraft.

YIG

Yig (the Father of Serpents), a deity in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos