Sites detailed include a graveyard where Edgar Allan Poe once walked and the inspiration for Lovecraft's story "The Shunned House".
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Lovecraft quickly came to think of Galpin as an honorary 'grandson', nicknamed him 'Alfredus', and the two wrote a number of poems for each other and engaged in the Gallomo correspondence circle together.
Abdul Alhazred, a fictional character created by American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft
In Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, Nephren-Ka was an Egyptian Pharaoh whose unspeakable cult worship led him to be stricken from almost all Egyptian records.
With Joshi, he has edited several volumes of writings by Lovecraft and Ambrose Bierce.
The song title "Cthulhu" refers to Lovecraft's fictional deity Cthulhu that appears in Cthulhu Mythos.
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (film), a 2006 adaptation of Lovecraft's story, starring Greg Fawcett
"The Call of Cthulhu", the original 1928 short story by H. P. Lovecraft
Although the game's story diverges in several places and features a completely different protagonist, several levels mirror passages from Lovecraft's novella The Shadow over Innsmouth.
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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.
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A major sub-plot of the game is inspired by Lovecraft's novella The Shadow Out of Time.
It bases some of its narrative around Lovecraft's novella Herbert West–Reanimator, also containing elements from the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game.
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.
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.
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.
He was brought to Earth from the planet Yuggoth (Pluto in Lovecraft's fiction) by an ancient, alien race, possibly the Mi-go
Koenig is also acknowledged for his efforts in fostering in the United States the writings of British author William Hope Hodgson(1877-1918), circulating copies of Hodgson’s books to Lovecraft and others.
Lovecraft also mentions K'n-yan in "The Whisperer in Darkness" (1930) and in his revision of Hazel Heald's "Out of the Aeons" (1935).
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.
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.
The Miskatonic was first mentioned (as "Miskatonic Valley") in Lovecraft's "The Picture in the House" (1920).
The firm published critical journals such as Lovecraft Studies (now superseded by Lovecraft Annual published by Hippocampus Press) and Studies in Weird Fiction, both edited by Joshi; Crypt of Cthulhu, edited by Robert M. Price; and has also published critical studies of Campbell (The Count of Thirty, edited by Joshi) and Fritz Leiber (Witches of the Mind, written by Bruce Byfield).
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.
The 1998 album title refers to the cult of worshippers in Lovecraft's tale The Haunter of the Dark.
His fiction includes Pulptime (W,. Paul Ganley, Publisher), in which Lovecraft, Long and Sherlock Holmes team up to solve a mystery; Scream for Jeeves: A Parody (Wodecraft Press, 1994), which retells some of Lovecraft's stories in the voice of P. G. Wodehouse's Bertie Wooster.
They are mentioned in many of Lovecraft's stories, including At the Mountains of Madness (1936), The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1926), "The Other Gods" (1933), and The Shadow Out of Time (1936).
Herbert West–Reanimator, a short story by American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft, written 1921-1922
The Horror at Red Hook, a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, set in Red Hook, Brooklyn
"Lovecraft as a Poet", by Winfield Townley Scott (note: this first version of Scott's essay was revised as " A Parenthesis on Lovecraft as Poet" and was printed in Scott's Exiles and Fabrications; revised version also reprinted in S.T. Joshi (ed).
Lovecraft's story "The Statement of Randolph Carter" was based on a dream he had, which included Loveman who became Harley Warren in the story.
Other references include history (Vlad the Impaler) and Lovecraft mythology (Horror of Yig).
The Necronomicon, as well as Lovecraft himself (under a different name), make cameo appearances in the game, along with well-known actors such as Jack Nicholson and Vincent Price.
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1992 Alone in the Dark fans were anxious to find Lovecraft direct references but Infogrames didn't have the rights to do it.
Due to these ascribed effects and the appearance of the sign on doors and doorways in Lovecraft's original works later uses by other authors, such as in the Call of Cthulhu role playing game, have connected it with doors and their sealing.
Greene also penned the story "Four O'Clock" (not revised by Lovecraft) which was first printed in Something About Cats and Other Pieces, a collection which also includes "The Invisible Monster" and her Lovecraft memoir "Lovecraft as I Knew Him".
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.
While the influence of the fantasies of Lord Dunsany on Lovecraft's Dream Cycle is often mentioned, Robert M. Price argues that a more direct model for The Dream-Quest is provided by the six Mars ("Barsoom") novels of Edgar Rice Burroughs that had been published by 1927.
The stories utilise such settings as Brichester, Goatswood and Clotton - Campbell's equivalent English invented locales comprising the Severn Valley (Cthulhu Mythos), based upon Lovecraft's invention of such locales as Arkham, Dunwich, and Kingsport.
According to S. T. Joshi, of the novel's 50,000 words, 1,200 were written by Lovecraft.
Peter Cannon writes that Whipple "is probably a composite portrait of Lovecraft's two learned uncles-in-law and maternal grandfather"; the grandfather's name was Whipple Phillips.
The Silver Key was used as an artifact that caused people to see waking dreams of Lovecraft's creatures in a fourth season episode of the mystery series Warehouse 13.
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During one of these dreams, his long-dead grandfather tells him of a silver key in his attic, inscribed with mysterious arabesque symbols, which he finds and takes with him on a visit to his boyhood home in the backwoods of northeastern Massachusetts (the setting for many of Lovecraft's stories), where he enters a mysterious cave that he used to play in.
It's notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of Kingsport.
Howard had previously dealt with beings similar to the titular Worms of the Earth in an earlier short story, "The Children of the Night", set in Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.
Yig (the Father of Serpents), a deity in H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu mythos
The band The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets, famous for their Lovecraft references, also refers to Yig in a song titled "Yig Snake Daddy".