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unusual facts about H.P. Lovecraft


H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon

(While the story takes minor elements from "The Whisperer in Darkness", the bat-like aliens have little in common with the Mi-go. The only real similarity seems to be in their ability to transfer a human brain into a new container, albeit one of their own bodies rather than a canister, as a means to expand their population. They also bear no physical resemblance aside from wings.)


ALPHA 60

Leonidas Aretakis has himself cited a few lyrical references, amongst others some figures in the Romantic and Neo-romantic movements, such as Friedrich Hölderlin, William Blake, Lord Byron, Rainer Maria Rilke and Georg Trakl, and the sometimes dreamlike storytelling of H.P. Lovecraft and Jorge Luis Borges.

Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth

The game is based on the works of H. P. Lovecraft, author of "The Call of Cthulhu" and progenitor of the Cthulhu Mythos, and in particular the game is a reimagining of Lovecraft's 1936 novella The Shadow over Innsmouth.

Ceux du dehors

The title alludes to the short story of the same name by H. P. Lovecraft; the players read the story in studio, then proceeded to record the piece.

Coon 2: Hindsight

The creatures emerging from the dimensional tear are similar to those in the works of author H. P. Lovecraft and the Stephen King novella The Mist, as well as its film adaptation.

Crowninshield-Bentley House

It has been suggested that this house may be the model for "the old Crowninshield house" mentioned in the H. P. Lovecraft story "The Thing on the Doorstep" (his Arkham was clearly modeled on Salem).

Daniel Haller

Based on H. P. Lovecraft's short story The Colour Out of Space, it was very similar in plot and atmosphere to Corman's Poe films.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Call of Cthulhu

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Call of Cthulhu is a modern radio drama performed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, based on the short story "The Call of Cthulhu" by H. P. Lovecraft.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Dunwich Horror is a 2008 radio drama performed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and based on the short story "The Dunwich Horror" by H. P. Lovecraft.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: The Shadow Out of Time is a radio drama performed by the H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and based on the novella The Shadow Out of Time by H. P. Lovecraft.

Death Is This Communion

Matt Pike noted that the album's lyrics were influenced by David Icke, H.P. Lovecraft, and the Bible.

Dirk W. Mosig

Yōzan Dirk W. Mosig (born 1943) is a psychologist, historian, literary critic and ordained Zen monk noted for his critical work on H. P. Lovecraft.

Gallomo

Gallomo was the name of a circle of literary correspondence between Alfred Galpin, H. P. Lovecraft, and Maurice W. Moe in the first couple decades of the 20th century.

Great Intelligence

Millennial Rites follows the New Adventure All-Consuming Fire by Andy Lane, published in 1994, in identifying the Great Intelligence with H. P. Lovecraft's Yog-Sothoth, a being from the universe before this one.

H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life

The English-language edition for the American and UK market was translated by Dorna Khazeni, and features an introduction by American novelist Stephen King.

Harley Warren

Harley Warren is a mysterious occultist who appears in H. P. Lovecraft's story "The Statement of Randolph Carter" as a friend of Carter (in the dream the story was based on Samuel Loveman was the Warren character).

Herman Charles Koenig

Herman Charles Koenig (November 28, 1893- July 6, 1959) was an avid collector of first editions and fantasy literature and a friend of the fantasy writer H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), and a member of his literary circle, known as the Kalem Club (the last names of the early members started with the letters K, L or M).

High Priest Not to Be Described

The High Priest Not to Be Described (Elder Hierophant, Tcho-Tcho Lama of Leng) is a fictional character in H. P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle.

Jason Colavito

In the book, Colavito explores the influences of H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos on the popular works of Erich von Däniken (Chariots of the Gods?) and Graham Hancock, as well as its overall influence on "extraterrestrial pop culture".

K'n-yan

The underground realm was first described in detail in H. P. Lovecraft's revision of Zealia Bishop's "The Mound" (1940), in which it is discovered by the 16th century Spanish Conquistador Zamacona.

Leonid Andreyev

Copies of his The Seven Who Were Hanged and The Red Laugh were found in the library of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, as listed in the "Lovecraft's Library" catalogue by S.T. Joshi.

Li Tobler

The happening included the worshipping of the Four Elements and was claimed as being close to Satanist and Lovecraftian aesthetics.

Lich

H.P. Lovecraft also used the word in "The Thing on the Doorstep" (published 1937) where the narrator refers to the corpse of his friend which was possessed by a sorcerer.

Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts

Lovecraft's Providence and Adjacent Parts is a book by Henry L. P. Beckwith, Jr. detailing sites in Providence, Rhode Island related to H. P. Lovecraft.

Lucio Fulci

The Curse (1987) (aka The Farm) – Fulci was credited as co-producer on this H. P. Lovecraft adaptation, based on The Colour Out of Space, which was directed by David Keith.

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

Movies reviewed inside the book include more popular films such as In the Mouth of Madness, Alien, Hellboy, The Thing, the cult classic Re-Animator as well as more obscure Japanese works such as Marebito and Uzumaki, Italian gore films (The Beyond) and even comedies (Cast a Deadly Spell).

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.

Mark Kinsey Stephenson

Mark Kinsey Stephenson is an American-born actor most famous for his role as Randolph Carter in the H.P. Lovecraft film adaptation named The Unnamable and its sequel The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter; the latter covered the whole of Lovecraft's story, The Statement of Randolph Carter, in about ten minutes.

Michael Bertiaux

Bertiaux's magical system is complex, including terms unique to himself, such as the "meon" and "Zoythrian" energies but also drawing on magical extensions of the writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the teachings of Aiwass.

Parodies of the ichthys symbol

Cthulhu is a fictional giant creature, one of the Great Old Ones in H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.

Passumpsic River

H.P. Lovecraft refers to the river in his horror short story The Whisperer in Darkness as a river in which unusual bodies were seen floating after the heavy Vermont floods of 1927.

Pimoidae

The species Pimoa cthulhu, described by Gustavo Hormiga in 1994, is named for Howard Phillips Lovecraft's mythological deity Cthulhu.

Rubber Dinosaurs and Wooden Elephants

The book consists of thirteen pieces on various subjects, including writers H. P. Lovecraft (two essays), Robert E. Howard (also two essays), and Edgar Rice Burroughs, actor Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., silent movies, pseudohistory, pseudobibliographica, barbarians real and fictional, the Scopes Trial, the ancient tyrant Dionysius I of Syracuse, and the author himself.

S. Albert Kivinen

Besides his writings based on the mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft, he has also recorded politico-philosophic songs even with the co-operation of such notable Finnish artists as M. A. Numminen.

Shape of Despair

Like many metal bands, Shape of Despair's lyrics and themes have been attributed by some to the influence of American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft.

Simon Sues

Most of the themes of the comic are based on various detective stories such as Sherlock Holmes, as well as H. P. Lovecraft and M. R. James.

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories

The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' third omnibus edition of works by 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft.

The House on the Borderland

Hodgson creates a newer more realistic/scientific cosmic horror that left a marked impression on the people who would become the great writers of the weird tales of the middle of the 20th century, most notably Clark Ashton Smith, and H. P. Lovecraft.

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories

The Thing on the Doorstep and Other Weird Stories is Penguin Classics' second omnibus edition of works by 20th-century American author H. P. Lovecraft.

Tri-Cornered Tent Show

The bands' recordings reference H.P. Lovecraft a writer from the early part of the twentieth century including the short story The Music of Erich Zann as well as the Fungi of Yuggoth.


see also

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".

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