H. P. Lovecraft
Lovecraft was an American sci-fi, horror, and fantasy author most famous for giving us Cthulhu.
Just The Facts
- Lovecraft has written 67 stories between 1905-1935
- He is the man who created Cthulhu
- Like Gerald Ford, Walt Disney, and Adolf Hitler, Lovecraft was pretty anti-Semitic
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H. P. Lovecraft was an author from the 1920's whose books weren't that widely accepted mostly due to his "challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christian humanism," according to Dr. Wikipedia. Because of that fact, like most artists and authors, Mr. Lovecraft didn't get renowned until sometime after his death. On the subject of horror, one of Lovecraft's favorite ways to describe something was to just simply say, "...it look too horrible to describe." Since we don't like to use our imaginations in the Internet Age, those words aren't nearly as appreciated as they were back in Lovecraft's time.
Cthulhu
The most notable of Lovecraft's creations would have to be the Cthulhu mythos. Cthulhu is a cosmic entity who first appeared in the short story "The Call of Cthulhu." He/She/It/Whatever is represented with an octopus head, dragon-like body and wings, and a human caricature.
That's a huge bitch!
Lovecraft in Popular Culture
Lovecraft has had a huge impact in our modern culture. Arkham Asylum in the Batman series is based off of a sanitorium in one of Lovecraft's stories. Not to mention, that 3 of Metallica's songs (The Call of Ktulu, The Thing That Should Not Be, and All Nightmare Long) are based off of Lovecraft's literature.
He was actually married to (and very likely lost his virginity to when he was in his 30's) a jewish divorcee a few years his senior, by the name of Sonia Greene.
ReplyVery nice. :D I love me some Lovecraft.
ReplyYou spelled Cthulhu wrong, son-of-man.
Reply Hide All See All 4 RepliesMy bad, mixed up Metallica's spelling with the real thing. Force of habit.
Happens to everyone, don't worry about it.
Do you have nine tongues? Does your larynx herald from the edge of time and space? Did you come from a realm of nightmares and daydreams, where order has no meaning and the infinite void of a million million miles of space is compressed into your feeble, mortal mind? No? Well then you can't pronounce his name correctly anyways so why bother spelling right?
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Also, i believe you meant Henry Ford rather than Gerald. Unless the falling-down president has a dark secret i don't know about.