H. P. Lovecraft
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Obama Says: Required Reading...there are indeed some kernels of good ideas. But like kernels at the bottom of a compost pile. will in seattle, are you referencing Lovecraft? cut and paste some good analysis on him and post it. Cthulu, how do you spell it? Interested? In this article: Barack Obama, Atlantic, Medicare, H. P. Lovecraft, and Rahm Emmanuel |
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Ain't It Cool News: The best in movie, TV, DVD, and comic book news. | 2 days ago
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...and Lanning introduce Lovecraftian-style cosmic horror to the Marvel Universe. Perhaps "reintroduce" is a better term, since elements of Lovecraft have been used before in the MU, most notably in the pages of Dr. Strange and the Avengers.
In this article: Quasar, Solomon Kane, Marvel, Robert E. Howard, The Authority, Grant Morrison, Mark Gruenwald, H.P. Lovecraft, Kull, and Conan
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NPR | 4 days ago
Alan Cheuse's Book Picks To Warm A Winter's Night
...two copies of the set - one to give as a gift and the other to keep for yourself. It's got well-known work from Poe, Hawthorne and H.P. Lovecraft, as well as works from great modern horror writers like Richard Matheson and Stephen King.
In this article: Norman Rockwell, J.G. Ballard, Library of America, Vladimir Nabokov, Treasure Island, Michael Chabon, Little, Brown and Company, and Peter Straub
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Washington Monthly | 5 days ago
The inescapable conclusion
But you don't have to study much history to see that isn't true; the human condition is that of a lunatic asylum. Vonnegut, Lovecraft, Kafka and others understood that. People are rarely swayed by logic and reason, but by emotion and...
In this article: Sarah Palin, Washington, Revenue, Ivy League, Anxiety, Socrates, and George Orwell
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | November 18, 2009
Film: The New Cult Canon:Army Of Darkness
...are separated more by tone than by story, and the mythology is simple: There's this book called the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis (hat tip: H.P. Lovecraft), bound in human flesh and written in blood, that unleashes all kinds of crazy supernatural...
In this article: Ash, Sam Raimi, Bruce Campbell, Army of Darkness, Evil Dead, Dino De Laurentiis, and Three Stooges
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ThinkGeek :: What's New | November 17, 2009
Home & Office : Cthulu Holiday Decorations
...own plans for world domination, thank you very much. However you celebrate your Winter Solstice, it's always a good time to bring a little Lovecraft into the festivities! Why not decorate your tree with one of these wonderful hand-crafted...
In this article: Egg Nog
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MAKE Magazine | November 16, 2009
The Bloop of Cthulhu?
...article at CNN.com.) The approximate origin of the sound has been identified as 50 S x 100 W, which is almost exactly the same latitude as Lovecraft's fictitious sunken city of R'lyeh, at 48 S x 123 W, although it is 1000 miles distant in...
In this article: Boston University
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L.A. Times - Travel | November 15, 2009
On the trail of vampires
...or blackened. It was decided that she was a vampire, Edwin was forced to drink her blood, and Mercy's vital organs were burned. H.P. Lovecraft, who's buried in Providence's Swan Point Cemetery, wrote about Mercy's case in "The Shunned...
In this article: New Orleans, The Vampire's Assistant, Interview with the Vampire, Anne Rice, New England, Exeter, and Swan Point Cemetery
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Boing Boing | November 10, 2009
Lovecraft sculptures
Joe Broers makes Cthulhu Mythos sculptures, which come with "fictitious 'documentation' that helps provide a feeling of verisimilitude to the project." John Allan Muhammad, best known for killing 10 people in the 2002 DC-area sniper...
In this article: Gary Glitter, Mac OS, Scientific American, Michael Shermer, Washington, D.C., and Virginia
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Blogcritics | November 09, 2009
DVD Review: Lovecraft - Fear of the Unknown
The documentary was released on DVD and Blu-ray by Cinevolve Studios on October 27, 2009. Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown chronologically relates Lovecraft's life from early childhood when his father was institutionalized, to his own death...
In this article: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, DVD, Lovecraft: a Biography, Blu-ray, Cancer, S.T. Joshi, H.P. Lovecraft: A Life, and L. Sprague de Camp
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A.V. Club RSS Feeds | October 29, 2009
Books: Gateways To Geekery:H.P. Lovecraft
...King to Neil Gaiman have heaped praise and reverence on him. As with the sinister Cthulhu cults Lovecraft wrote about, there's a real-world cult of Lovecraft that's been dissecting, debating, and expanding on his legacy for decades.
In this article: The Call of Cthulhu, Stephen King, Necronomicon, Neil Gaiman, Yuggoth, Miskatonic University, and Arkham
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Description from Wikipedia:
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of Enlightenment, Romanticist, and Christian humanism. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe.
- Birth Date:
- August 20, 1890
- Birthplace:
- Providence, Rhode Island, United States
- Death Date:
- March 15, 1937
- Place of Death:
- Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.
- Occupation:
- short story writer; novelist
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