Theme: Lovecraftian Themes

H.P. (or Howard Phillips) Lovecraft (1890-1937) was a writer who casts a giant shadow over horror fiction. He produced some 60 short stories and novellas and four novels and created a unique vision of horror.

Lovecraft’s work is filled with people questing after forbidden knowledge and enacting rites; of ancient civilisations fallen due to miscegenation with non-human creatures; narrators who encounter horrors that have driven them insane.

Lovecraft’s most important contribution was the invention of the pantheon of Elder Gods, all-powerful entities (the most famous of which was Cthulhu) that lie slumbering or waiting to be called and whose very sight alone can drive somebody mad.

The following is a list of adaptations of Lovecraft’s work, pastiches by other writers, works that homage or parody Lovecraft and others that can be said to adopt his ideas.