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

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Lucky Day
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The Dead Take the A Train (Carrion City, #1)
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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)
All the Fiends of Hell
Terminus (Threshold, #4)
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A Conventional Boy (Laundry Files, #13; New Management, #4)
Not a Speck of Light: Stories
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诡秘之主
The Call of Cthulhu
At the Mountains of Madness
The Fisherman
The Shadow over Innsmouth
The Ballad of Black Tom
Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, #1)
Dagon
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
The Dunwich Horror
The Cats of Ulthar

H.P. Lovecraft
Well did the traveler know those garden lands that lie betwixt the wood of the Cerenerian Sea, and blithely did he follow the singing river Oukranos that marked his course. The sun rose higher over gentle slopes of grove and lawn, and heightened the colors of the thousand flowers that starred each knoll and dingle. A blessed haze lies upon all this region, wherein is held a little more of the sunlight than other places hold, and a little more of the summer's humming music of birds and bees; so t ...more
H.P. Lovecraft, The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

H.P. Lovecraft
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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