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	H.P. Lovecraft - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Lovecraft's mother also was committed to the Butler Hospital, where she died from surgical complications on May 21, 1921.
		Lovecraft drew upon the history of his own ethnic group for the environment of much of his work, and his love for Anglo-Saxon history and culture is often-times repeated in his work (such as King Kuranes' nostalgy for England in The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath.
		Much of Lovecraft's work was directly inspired by his nightmares, and it is perhaps this direct insight into the subconscious and its symbolism that helps to account for their continuing resonance and popularity.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/H._P._Lovecraft (4125 words)

	Ex Libris Nocturnis -
		Lovecraft had spent the vast majority of his life in an insular and very white small town in New England, and to be standing in the home of the melting pot didn't sit very well with him at all.
		Lovecraft's byline became a frequent sight in Weird Tales for a time: his stories appeared in nine out of 11 of that magazine's issues from late 1923 to early 1925.
		Lovecraft's marriage started off a trifle unorthodox: when he and Sonia did marry, in 1924, no one else was informed until after the deed was done.
	www.nocturnis.net /articles/genwod/2000/August/44/page1.html (2239 words)

	Scriptorium - H.P. Lovecraft
		Lovecraft later believed that Hellenism and astronomy were the two central influences of his early years, the latter especially because it led directly to his "cosmic" philosophy wherein mankind and the world are but a flyspeck amidst the vortices of infinite space.
		Lovecraft never recovered from the loss of his birthplace: in the short run it drove him almost to suicide, as he took long bicycle rides and gazed wistfully at the watery depths of the Barrington River; in the long run it led to a sense of loss and displacement that his early readings only augmented.
		Lovecraft remained faithful to the eighteenth-century poets, although he came to regard as the true giants of English poetry such Romantics as Keats and Shelley and such of his predecessors and contemporaries as the early Swinburne and Yeats.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/lovecraft.html (8944 words)

	NOVA Express Article - Why Lovecraft Still Matters
		Lovecraft seems to be reconciling and synthesizing the day-to-day life's pleasures and the vast possibilities of time and space.
		Lovecraft rebelled artistically against the horror story of his time (monster vs. victim) and replaced it with a cosmic theme (Cosmos as source of terror and/or ecstasy).
		Lovecraft pushed this technique by seeding other writer's tales with these forbidden books, and encouraging his friends to drop references to them in their own work.
	www.sflit.com /novaexpress/14/lovecraft-14.html (3101 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre
		Lovecraft applied the Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest to Spenglerian notions of the rise and fall of civilization, thus providing a double blow to the idea of evolution as progress: even the most advanced and intelligent cultures are doomed, according to this notion of history.
		In Lovecraft's malignant universe, there are timeless horrors older by millennia than man. There are shapeless, hungry things that call the derelict and forgotten subways and caverns beneath Boston and New York their bowers and lairs, and would blast the sanity of a modern man schooled in reason and the scientific method.
		This anthology, then, is a very good collection of some of Lovecraft's finest work; there are a few weak pieces, but his best tales, except the aforementioned "At the Mountains of Madness," are all represented here (had this novella been included, I would have given this collection five stars).
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345350804?v=glance (3089 words)

	Lovecraft's Necronomicon
		Lovecraft is a master of Gothic horror and the occult manuscript Necronomicon which he refers to in several of his stories is a literary invention.
		In the case of Lovecraft himself, who in waking life vehemently denied the verdical nature of the material with which he was dealing, the process of appropriation was almost completely subconscious, occuring through the medium of dream-experiences.
		"Lovecraft's myth of the Great Old Ones has much in common with the ancient belief, recorded in the Book of Enoch, that human beings were given many kinds of occult and forbidden knowledge by fallen angels who coupled with women to create demonic entities (Lovecraft recycles this legend as The Dunwich Horror).
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/scripts/necronomicon.html (6468 words)

	Straight Dope Staff Report: Was H.P. Lovecraft's "Necromicon" for real?
		Lovecraft claimed the Greek term Necronomicon is derived from nekros (corpse), nomos (law) and eikon (image), hence the book title is "The image/picture of the Law of the Dead." Unfortunately, this derivation is not consistent with ancient Greek grammatical constructions.
		According to Lovecraft's "History," the Necronomicon was written in the 8th Century AD by the "mad Arab" Alhazred, and was translated into Greek under the title Necronomicon by Theodorus Philetas in AD 950, then into Latin by Olias Wormius in 1228.
		Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is recognized as one of the world masters of tales of the macabre.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mnecromicon.html (2452 words)

	Modern America 1914-
		Lovecraft was a visionary who peered through the telescope of time and saw distant beams of revelatory light which would manifest themselves to humanity in due time.
		Lovecraft held a belief that we are all inherently evil and must constantly war within ourselves to prevent such destructive behaviour from surfacing.
		Burelson defines another of Lovecraft's themes as oneiric objectivism, a belief that dreams are a reality possibly greater than our waking existence and all of mankind's dreams as a unified whole hold the key to existence.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/lovecraf.htm (2580 words)

	H.P. Lovecraft
		Lovecraft's father, named after the hero Winfield Scott, was a traveling salesman, who went mad, probably from syphilis, was institutionalized, and died when his son was five.
		Lovecraft's imaginary town in his tales, Arkham, was based on his home town of Providence.
		Lovecraft's mother died when the author was 31 - at the same insane asylum as his father.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /lovecraf.htm (1602 words)

	The Mana Bros. Lovecraft Page
		Only after Lovecraft's death, when reprints of his stories or "premieres" of newly discovered fragments helped the hailing magazine to survive was Lovecraft given more space and cover art dignity.
		Lovecraft also directed his creative energies at writing articles and pamphlets, often championing a conservative point of view, and sometimes taking some downright embarassing stances.
		Since many, and far better pages and sites than this have been dedicated to the late Howard Phillips Lovecraft and his works, making HPL one of the most recurrent figures on the Web, what follows will not be a detailed history of the man's life, nor an in-depth analysis of his opus.
	www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/zenith/134/hpl.htm (802 words)

	Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences by Atish R. Ghosh, ISBN 0262072408 And An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia by S. T. Joshi, ISBN 0313315787
		Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century.
		This exhaustive guide reveals many aspects of Lovecraft's life and work, codifying the detailed research conducted by many scholars over the past three decades.
		The volume draws upon rare documents, including thousands of unpublished letters, in presenting plot synopses, descriptions of characters, biographies of colleagues and family members, and entries on various topics and esoteric lore related to his works.
	www.susanhartlindquist.com /exchange.htm (340 words)

	H.P. Lovecraft: History of the Necronomicon
		The explanation is that the Index did not exist at this time, as further research must have revealed to Lovecraft.] The original Arabic was lost before Olaus' time, and the last known Greek copy perished in Salem in 1692.
		He claimed to have seen fabulous Irem, or City of Pillars, and to have found beneath the ruins of a certain nameless desert town the shocking annals and secrets of a race older than mankind.
		For a century it impelled certain experimenters to terrible attempts, when it was suppressed and burnt by the patriarch Michael.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/9879/nechist.htm (2086 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia
		Moreover, scholarly-minded Lovecraftians should be able to use a Lovecraft encyclopedia as part of their arsenal to debunk misconceptions, and so including entries on Lovecraft's supernatural/alien entities that set the record straight as to what they're each about may be the most important components of that arsenal.
		Lovecraft scholars Joshi (founder and editor of Lovecraft Studies) and Schultz (editor of H.P. Lovecraft's Commonplace Book) have compiled an accessible yet scholarly general encyclopedia and chronology focusing on prolific fantasy/horror author H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937).
		There is, of course, good reason to include synopses of Lovecraft's writings in an encyclopedia devoted to him: to help the scholarly-minded reader sort out his various writings, and to jog the reader's memory as to what transpires in the fictional works.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0313315787/yogsothoth-20 (1515 words)

	ProfessorBainbridge.com: Lovecraft
		Lovecraft knew what to place onstage as well as what to leave inside the haunted imaginations of his readers.
		But I dote on horror stories and, perhaps because his personal world view was so yucky (to use a technical term of literary criticism), nobody did it better than Lovecraft.
		As John Miller recently observed, in a review well worth reading in full, Lovecraft's take on the world was a profoundly sick one:
	www.professorbainbridge.com /2005/03/lovecraft.html (887 words)

	H. P. Lovecraft
		Lovecraft's last major story, considered by some to be his finest, now restored from the original manuscript not discovered until 1995!
		An "autobiography" of Lovecraft culled from his voluminous correspondence and structured by the editors.
		Leading Lovecraft scholar S. Joshi's selected pieces on Lovecraft, his life and work, are collected for the first time.
	alangullette.com /lit/hpl (826 words)

	Hippocampus Press
		Lovecraft was one of the most well-read authors of his time, and his personal library constitutes an intimate glimpse into his mind and imagination.
		This anthology, edited by Robert M. Price, is set in and around H. Lovecraft's fictional locale.
		This revised and enlarged edition provides comprehensive information on nearly 1000 books owned by Lovecraft.
	www.hippocampuspress.com (469 words)

	Lurker Films - The H.P. Lovecraft Collection on DVD
		The sublime Out of Mind seamlessly melds a stealth Lovecraft documentary using dialog based on his numerous personal corespondence, and story fragments from his mythos woven into a single fascinating tapestry.
		We specialize in movies, film, and audio books based on the eldritch works of the author H.P. Lovecraft (best known for such creations as Cthulhu and the Necronomicon).
		Even some iridescent protoplasma shows up but the filmmakers wisely keep their on-screen time very short, hinting at them rather then attempting to gross anyone out.
	www.lurkerfilms.com (667 words)

	The Necronomicon Anti-FAQ
		It is easy to imagine a situation where Sonia and Lovecraft are laughing and talking in a firelit room about a new story, and Sonia introduces some ideas based on what Crowley had told her; she wouldn't even have to mention Crowley, just enough of the ideas to spark Lovecraft's imagination.
		There is no evidence that Lovecraft ever saw the Necronomicon, or even knew that the book existed; his Necronomicon is remarkably close to the spirit of the original, but the details are pure invention, as one would expect.
		Dee translated the Necronomicon into English while warden of Christ's College, Manchester, but contrary to Lovecraft, this translation was never printed - the manuscript passed into the collection of the great collector Elias Ashmole, and hence to the Bodleian Library in Oxford.
	www.digital-brilliance.com /necron/necron.htm (6131 words)

	HPLA - An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia
		H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century.
		As Lovecraft’s renown continues to ascend in the 21st century, this encyclopedia will be essential to understanding his legacy and writings.
		This encyclopedia is an exhaustive guide to many aspects of Lovecraft’s life and work, codifying the detailed research on Lovecraft conducted by many scholars over the past three decades.
	www.hplovecraft.com /study/litcrit/hplencyc.htm (150 words)

	Salon.com Books Master of disgust
		H.P. Lovecraft built his reputation as America's greatest bad writer on a loathsome edifice of unspeakable, hideous filth whose nauseating tendrils reach into the nightmarish depths of hyperbole.
		"From the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent," reads the first line of the H.P. Lovecraft story "The Shunned House," but chances are Lovecraft, who died in 1937, wouldn't have appreciated the irony of his present position as American literature's greatest bad writer.
		One, led by the late genre skeptic Edmund Wilson, dismisses him as an overwriting "hack" who purveyed "bad taste and bad art." The other, led by Lovecraft scholar and biographer S.T. Joshi, hotly rises to Lovecraft's defense as an artist of "philosophical and literary substance."
	www.salon.com /books/feature/2005/02/12/lovecraft/index.html (237 words)

	hp lovecraft encyclopedia - book review for zone-sf.com
		In particular, he has proved beyond dispute that Lovecraft was not a bad writer with a cool setting, but a brilliant wordsmith with considerably more to say than two-dimensional representations of the Cthulhu mythos might suggest.
		From an account of Charleston (describing Lovecraft's travelogue of his trip to Charleston, VA in 1930) to Zimmer (a character in The Temple), this encyclopaedia provides entries on Lovecraft's stories, articles and poetry; his family and professional and personal acquaintances; and numerous mini-essays on such things as Lovecraft's travels, Lovecraft's Necronomicon and amateur journalism.
		Since the early 1980s he has pushed Lovecraft scholarship forward, returning to basic texts and eschewing much that has been added to Lovecraft's work over the years both in terms of his exaggerated reputation for oddness and the accumulated baggage of the Cthulhu mythos itself.
	www.zone-sf.com /hplencyclop.html (611 words)

	H.P. Lovecraft meets Bil Keane MetaFilter
		Lovecraft's phantasm-haunted sensibility creates fun sparks when rubbed against Bil Keane's aw-shucks apple-pie sensibility.
		I don't know much about Lovecraft, but this works amazingly well.
		The clean cartoon lines are a semblance of order waiting to be violated by intimations of the fearfully glimpsed.
	www.metafilter.com /mefi/40773 (485 words)

	Remove H.P. Lovecraft’s Name from August Derleth’s Books Petition
		Despite Derleth’s long-known authorship, these books are marketed as having been written by Lovecraft himself, and display Lovecraft’s name prominently on their front covers, spines, and title pages.
		The Remove H.P. Lovecraft’s Name from August Derleth’s Books Petition to Carroll & Graf Publishers was created by The H.P. Lovecraft Archive and written by Donovan K. Loucks.
		The signers of this petition are of the opinion that marketing these inferior stories under Lovecraft’s name harm his literary reputation.
	www.petitiononline.com /cghplad/petition.html (414 words)

	Lovecraft Tarot
		The Lovecraft Tarot is a tribute to the gothic writings of the visionary H.P. Lovecraft.
		Images from The Lovecraft Tarot are copyright 2001 Daryl Hutchinson.
		If you would like your own copy of the Lovecraft Tarot, you can buy it now!
	www.facade.com /tarot/lovecraft (283 words)

	LOVECRAFT'S WEIRD MYSTERIES
		LOVECRAFT'S WEIRD MYSTERIES is a digest-sized, black and white fan magazine in the tradition of the legendary Weird Tales (TM) and other "shudder" pulps from the classic era of the 20's and 30's.
		Inspiration is drawn from the works of Edgar Allen Poe, August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, Seabury Quinn and the master himself, H.P. Lovecraft, as well as traditional ghost and terror tales by the likes of M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood and F. Marion Crawford.
		Each issue contains both new and classic stories of mysterious fear and terror including new tales in the legendary Lovecraft Mythos tradition.
	www.oz.net /%7Elotus/lmmpage.htm (643 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books: H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia, An
		Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life; Paperback ~ Michel Houellebecq, et al
		The gigantic amount of information featured inside truly is of huge interest to anyone even vaguely interested in the life and writings of Lovecraft.
		Clearly, a massive amount of research has been carried out in the writing of this book and it shows.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/097487891X (401 words)

	The NetherReal - A Study into the World of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos
		The NetherReal - A Study into the World of H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos
	www.netherreal.de (15 words)

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	encyclopedia.localcolorart.com /encyclopedia/Author:H._P._Lovecraft (136 words)

	The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Cosmic Horror & Weird Tales
		The festival was founded in 1995 by Andrew Migliore in the hope that H.P. Lovecraft would be rightly recognized as a master of gothic horror and his work more faithfully adapted to film and television.
		October 7-8-9, 2005 Hollywood Theatre Portland OR Our purpose: promote the works of H.P. Lovecraft, literary horror, and weird tales through the cinematic adaptations by professional and amateur filmmakers.
		The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival: Cosmic Horror and Weird Tales
	www.hplfilmfestival.com (88 words)

	The H.P. Lovecraft Archive
		Created a page for H.P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, by Michel Houellebecq, translated from the French by Dorna Khazeni, with an introduction by Stephen King.
		Created a page for The Lovecraft Lexicon: A Reader’s Guide to Persons, Places and Things in the Tales of H.P. Lovecraft, by Anthony B. Pearsall.
		Created a page for Lovecraft Letters Volume 2: Letters from New York, edited by S.T. Joshi and David E. Schultz.
	www.hplovecraft.com (273 words)

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