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H.P. Lovecraft

Born

in Providence, Rhode Island, The United States

August 20, 1890

Died

March 15, 1937

Website

http://www.hplovecraft.com/

Genre

Horror, Weird Fiction, Short Stories

Influences

Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Chambers, Clark Ashton Smith, Arthur Machen, L ...more

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.

Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and 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 the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mir ...more

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H.P. Lovecraft’s books

Average rating: 3.96 · 841,660 ratings · 59,904 reviews · 5,475 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Call of Cthulhu 4.03 avg rating — 114,116 ratings — published 1928 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Mountains of Madness 3.79 avg rating — 59,748 ratings — published 1931 — 37 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft 4.34 avg rating — 35,929 ratings — 338 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth (Editor), Robert Bloch (Introduction) 4.30 avg rating — 29,857 ratings — published 1963 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror 4.25 avg rating — 24,591 ratings — published 1981 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Shadow over Innsmouth 4.10 avg rating — 25,214 ratings — published 1936 — 393 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Case of Charles Dexter Ward 4.12 avg rating — 22,158 ratings — published 1941 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Νεκρονομικόν by H.P. Lovecraft, Abdul Alhazred, Αμπντούλ Αλχαζρέντ 4.21 avg rating — 17,306 ratings — published 2008 — 35 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dunwich Horror and Others by H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, August Derleth (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 16,299 ratings — published 1929 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Dunwich Horror 3.81 avg rating — 13,461 ratings — 1115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by H.P. Lovecraft

Dream Cycle (13 books)
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3.55 avg rating — 33,159 ratings

Randolph Carter (5 books)
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H.P. Lovecraft,

E. Hoffmann Price

3.72 avg rating — 16,996 ratings

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre (22 books)
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H.P. Lovecraft

3.95 avg rating — 7,331 ratings

The Dark Worlds of H.P. Lovecraft (8 books)
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H.P. Lovecraft,

Wayne June (Narrator)

3.79 avg rating — 2,672 ratings

The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft (2 books)
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Leslie S. Klinger (Goodreads Author) (Editor),

Victor LaValle (Introduction)

4.40 avg rating — 2,103 ratings

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As life’s rich pageant of books passes through Goodreads World Headquarters, we often take note of certain thematic and topical trends...

Polls

October 2017 Short Story Poll

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, 43 pages, 1928

62 votes, 21.5%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages, 1952

57 votes, 19.8%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 24 pages, 1953

43 votes, 14.9%

The Little Photographer by Daphne du Maurier, 45 pages, 1952

41 votes, 14.2%

The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, 125 pages, 1764

28 votes, 9.7%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, 82 pages, 1918

20 votes, 6.9%

Lost Boy: A Novella by Thomas Wolfe, 95 pages, 1927

15 votes, 5.2%

Xingu by Edith Wharton, 48 pages, 1916

10 votes, 3.5%

The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, 128 pages, 1937

8 votes, 2.8%

The Upper Berth by Francis Marion Crawford, 48 pages, 1886

4 votes, 1.4%

288 total votes

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