Most Read This Week In Lovecraftian

Lovecraftian horror is a sub-genre of horror fiction which emphasizes the cosmic horror of the unknown (in some cases, unknowable). It is named after American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937). Lovecraft refined this style of storytelling into his own mythos that involved a set of supernatural, pre-human, and extraterrestrial elements. His work was inspired by and similar to previous authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Algernon Blackwood and Lord Dunsany. The hallmark of Lovecraft's work is cosmicism: the sense that ordinary life is a thin shell over a reality that is so alien and abstract in co ...more

Most Read This Week Tagged "Lovecraftian"

The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)

If This Book Exists, You're in the Wrong Universe (John Dies at the End, #4)

Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)

H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth

The Destroyer of Worlds (Lovecraft Country, #2)

Tales from the Gas Station: Volume Four (Tales from the Gas Station #4)

A Conventional Boy (Laundry Files, #13; New Management, #4)

Of Kings and Killers (The Elder Empire: Sea, #3)

Of Killers and Kings (The Elder Empire: Shadow, #3)

Son of the Poison Rose (Kagen the Damned, #2)

Escape from the Center of the Earth (Center of the Earth, #3)

Season of Skulls (Laundry Files, #12; New Management, #3)

Escape from Yokai Land (Laundry Files, #6.5)

Monster Hunter Bloodlines (Monster Hunter International #8)

Quantum of Nightmares (Laundry Files, #11; The New Management, #2)

It Waits on the Top Floor (Horror Lurks Beneath, #1)

GHOST GIRL ゴーストガール 1 (Ghost Reaper Girl, #1)

Mirka Andolfo's Mercy: The Fair Lady, The Frost, and The Fiend

In the Mad Mountains: Stories Inspired by H. P. Lovecraft

Those Who Go Forth into the Empty Place of Gods

Sherlock Holmes and the Highgate Horrors

Even the Worm Will Turn (The Worm and His Kings, #2)

The Age of Decayed Futurity: The Best of Mark Samuels

A Broken Darkness (Beneath the Rising, #2)

They Cling to the Hull (Horror Lurks Beneath, #2)

The Wind Began to Howl (Isaiah Coleridge, #3.5)

The Void Ascendant (Beneath the Rising, #3)

A Different Darkness and Other Abominations

The Call of Cthulhu and Dagon: A Graphic Novel (Graphic Classics)

Grim Investigations: Arkham Horror: The Collected Novellas, Vol. 2

Le dernier jour de Howard Phillips Lovecraft

GHOST GIRL ゴーストガール 4 (Ghost Reaper Girl, #4)

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“ I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men. ”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Outsider

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“ Bunch together a group of people deliberately chosen for strong religious feelings, and you have a practical guarantee of dark morbidities expressed in crime, perversion, and insanity. ”
― H. P. Lovecraft

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