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	Straight Dope Staff Report: Was H.P. Lovecraft's "Necromicon" for real?
		Lovecraft used the same references in 13 stories that one might classify as contributing to the Cthulhu Mythos.
		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.
	www.straightdope.com /mailbag/mnecromicon.html (2452 words)

	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.
		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.
		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.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/H._P._Lovecraft (4125 words)

	HPLA - Howard Phillips Lovecraft: The Life of a Gentleman of Providence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Lovecraft was apparently informed that his father was paralyzed and comatose during this period, but the surviving evidence suggests that this was not the case; it is nearly certain that Lovecraft’s father died of paresis, a form of neurosyphilis.
		Lovecraft was devastated by the loss of his birthplace, and apparently contemplated suicide, as he took long bicycle rides and looked wistfully at the watery depths of the Barrington River.
		Lovecraft’s mother, her mental and physical condition deteriorating, suffered a nervous breakdown in 1919 and was admitted to Butler Hospital, whence, like her husband, she would never emerge.
	www.hplovecraft.com /life/biograph.htm (1836 words)

	Scriptorium - H.P. Lovecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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 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, stunned by the blow, felt himself again on the brink of suicide, but the sentiment did not last long: a month after his mother's death he attended an amateur journalism convention in Boston, where he met the woman who was to become his wife.
	www.themodernword.com /scriptorium/lovecraft.html (8944 words)

	NOVA Express Article - Why Lovecraft Still Matters
		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.
		Lovecraft seems to be reconciling and synthesizing the day-to-day life's pleasures and the vast possibilities of time and space.
	www.sflit.com /novaexpress/14/lovecraft-14.html (3101 words)

	Posts tagged with lovecraft \| MetaFilter
		Weird Tales: The Strange Life of HP Lovecraft is a 45-minute BBC radio documentary: "Geoff Ward examines the strange life and terrifying world of the man hailed as America's greatest horror writer since Poe.
		His current project is creating amazing looking HP Lovecraft inspired nightmares in specimen jars, which he is more than happy to build on commission.
		Along with Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith is an early contributor to Weird Tales whose stories stand the test of time (his work directly inspired Ray Bradbury and Harlan Ellison).
	www.metafilter.com /tags/lovecraft (985 words)

	Ex Libris Nocturnis - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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.
		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.
	www.nocturnis.net /articles/genwod/2000/August/44/page1.html (2239 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Lovecraft was not content with writing "mere" stories of invasion by alien forces, however: his extraterrestrials are subject to the same forces as ourselves, and we often have much in common with them.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0345350804?v=glance (3089 words)

	Modern America 1914-
		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.
		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.
	www.uncp.edu /home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/lovecraf.htm (2580 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: H. P. Lovecraft : Tales (Library of America) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		Lovecraft's tales show man faced up against the stark reality of a cosmos bereft of meaning (he was an atheist and materialist though he wrote on superstition), in which elder beings from other dimensions haunted the world of men.
		Lovecraft was also a racialist and arch-conservative (though he married a Jew and later came to advocate socialism) and expressed abhorrence for other races and immigrants within his stories.
		Lovecraft was influenced by other writers such as Dunsany, Machen, and Poe, but also came to influence a new generation of weird tales writers including Robert E. Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, Fritz Leiber, and Robert Bloch.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/1931082723?v=glance (2774 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 died from a combination of intestinal cancer and Bright's disease on March 15, 1937.
		Many of Lovecraft's tales utilize a pseudo-mythical framework, termed the 'Cthulhu Mythos.' The first installment in the series, 'The Call of Cthulhu' appeared in the February 1928 issue of Weird Tales, where he created his basic myth of the Old Ones and Elder Race, which wandered on earth long before the appearance of Homo Sapiens.
	www.kirjasto.sci.fi /lovecraf.htm (1575 words)

	The Mana Bros. Lovecraft Page
		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.
		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.
		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.
	www.fortunecity.com /tattooine/zenith/134/hpl.htm (802 words)

	Lovecraft's Library: A Catalogue - 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.
		These books focus chiefly on four key areas that Lovecraft found particularly fascinating: ancient literature and history; the history and antiquities of New England; astronomy, chemistry, and other sciences; and, of course, the literature of weird fiction.
		Joshi has supplied full publication information, tables of contents for many titles, data on Lovecraft's discussions of the volumes in his stories, essays, poems, and letters, and a wealth of other information.
	www.hippocampuspress.com /lovecraft/lovecrafts_library.html (247 words)

	Lovecraft's Necronomicon
		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 attributes the source of his material to Olaus Wormius' Latin version of Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon, as printed in Spain in the 17th century.
		And third, there is a kind of peripheral connection between Lovecraft and the Golden Dawn in that several of his favorite weird fiction writers belonged to it.
	www.think-aboutit.com /Misc/great_cthulhu.htm (4746 words)

	H.P. Lovecraft
		oward Phillips Lovecraft was born at 9 a.m.
		His father was Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman for Gorham and Co., Silversmiths, of Providence.
		Although Lovecraft had many friends in New York--Frank Belknap Long, Rheinhart Kleiner, Samuel Loveman--he became increasingly depressed by his isolation and the masses of "foreigners" in the city.
	www.angelfire.com /id/pazazu/hpl.html (1797 words)

	H.P. Lovecraft: History of the Necronomicon
		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.
		It was from rumours of this book (of which relatively few of the general public know) that R.W. Chambers is said to have derived the idea of his early novel The King in Yellow.
	www.geocities.com /SoHo/9879/nechist.htm (2086 words)

	H. P. Lovecraft Quizzes and H. P. Lovecraft Trivia -- FunTrivia
		These are mostly basic Lovecraft questions, with a few surprises mixed in.
		Everyone knows Lovecraft never coined the term "The Cthulhu Mythos", but let's see how much you do know about Lovecraft and his infamous creations.
		This is a quiz on the works of one of the greatest horror writers ever, H. Lovecraft.
	www.funtrivia.com /quizzes/literature/authors_l-p/h_p_lovecraft.html (516 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.
		"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).
		Second, in his study of occult material, it is not impossible that Lovecraft may have come into contact with The Equinox.
	www.mystae.com /restricted/streams/scripts/necronomicon.html (6468 words)

	The Shadow out of Time By H. P. Lovecraft - Hippocampus Press
		The recent discovery of Lovecraft's handwritten manuscript allows readers to appreciate this magnificently cosmic story exactly as originally written.
		All previous editions of the story contain hundreds of serious errors, including errors in paragraphing, omissions and mistranscriptions of many words and passages, and erroneous punctuation.
		Leading Lovecraft scholars S. Joshi and David E. Schultz have provided an exhaustive introduction and commentary on the story, elucidating names, places and other elements in this richly evocative story.
	www.hippocampuspress.com /lovecraft/shadow_out_of_time.html (282 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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.
		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.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/ASIN/0313315787/yogsothoth-20 (1515 words)

	H. P. Lovecraft
		Leading Lovecraft scholar S. Joshi's selected pieces on Lovecraft, his life and work, are collected for the first time.
		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.
	alangullette.com /lit/hpl (826 words)

	Exchange Rate Regimes: Choices and Consequences by Atish R. Ghosh, ISBN 0262072408 And An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia ...
		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)

	ProfessorBainbridge.com: Lovecraft (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		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.
		Lovecraft knew what to place onstage as well as what to leave inside the haunted imaginations of his readers.
		Anyway, Lovecraft's best work is now available in a lovely Library of America edition.
	www.professorbainbridge.com /2005/03/lovecraft.html (887 words)

	hp lovecraft encyclopedia - book review for zone-sf.com
		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.
		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.
	www.zone-sf.com /hplencyclop.html (611 words)

	HPLA - An H.P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-27)
		H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is commonly regarded as the leading author of supernatural fiction in the 20th century.
		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.
		As Lovecraft’s renown continues to ascend in the 21st century, this encyclopedia will be essential to understanding his legacy and writings.
	www.hplovecraft.com /study/litcrit/hplencyc.htm (150 words)

	Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Tales (Library of America)
		In this Library of America volume, the best-selling novelist Peter Straub brings together the very best of Lovecraft's fiction in a treasury guaranteed to bring fright and delight both to longtime fans and to readers new to his work.
		Early stories such as "The Outsider," "The Music of Erich Zann," "Herbert West–Reanimator," and "The Lurking Fear" demonstrate Lovecraft's uncanny ability to blur the distinction between reality and nightmare, sanity and madness, the human and non-human.
		Peter Straub, volume editor, is the best-selling and award-winning author of more than a dozen novels, including Ghost Story, Floating Dragon, and In the Night Room, as well as two collaborations with Stephen King, The Talisman and Black House.
	www.loa.org /volume.jsp?RequestID=223 (251 words)

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