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After a small funeral, Lovecraft was buried in Swan Point Cemetery and was listed alongside his parents on the Phillips family monument. [128] In 1977, fans erected a headstone in the same cemetery, on which they inscribed his name, the dates of his birth and death, and the phrase "I AM PROVIDENCE"—a line from one of his personal letters.
"Rather than creating in the reader a mood of terror, Lovecraft describes a mood of terror: the emotion is applied in the adjectives." He does, however, allow that the tale has some "evocative power". Lovecraft himself was powerfully moved by an emotion of awe and fascination when contemplating the mysterious ruins of unthinkable antiquity.
Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi praised the tale, calling it "surprisingly effective and suspenseful, with a genuinely surprising ending". [4] Science fiction and fantasy author, editor, and critic Lin Carter , in his 1972 work Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos , refers to the story as "one of the best things Lovecraft had written up to ...
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Radio adaptation by Macabre Fantasy Radio Theater was performed live at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in September 2012. [5] "The Statement of Randolph Carter" was loosely adapted as a horror comic known as H.P. Lovecraft's The Grave [6] The song "You Fool, Warren is Dead!" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is based on the story.
At the Mountains of Madness is a science-fiction horror novella by the American author H. P. Lovecraft, written in February/March 1931.Rejected that year by Weird Tales editor Farnsworth Wright on the grounds of its length, [1] it was originally serialized in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories.
Lovecraft Country is shining a light on buried histories of America. Similar to Watchmen, the superhero series that takes place in an alternative version of U.S. history, Lovecraft Country blends ...
Kingsport, which is mentioned in several Lovecraft stories, first appeared in "The Terrible Old Man" (1920).The title character of that story makes an appearance in "The Strange High House in the Mist" as well, as the Old Man mentions that the House had been on the cliff even when his grandfather was a boy, which the main character comments "must be immeasurable ages ago".