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The Cthulhu Mythos is the ongoing setting of several of H. P. Lovecraft's novels and short stories. Pages in category "Cthulhu Mythos writers" The following 79 pages are in this category, out of 79 total.
Author. The person or character credited as the author of the work. Authors of nonfictional works are real people. If the author is fictitious, the name of the writer who created the work appears in parentheses after the character's name. Surnames of Mythos writers are as follows: Derleth = August Derleth; Bloch = Robert Bloch; Howard = Robert ...
Horror author Stephen King called Lovecraft "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale." [ 218 ] King stated in his semi-autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for his own fascination with horror and the macabre and was the largest influence on his writing.
The Cthulhu Mythos is a mythopoeia and a shared fictional universe, ... Authors of Lovecraftian horror in particular frequently use elements of the Cthulhu Mythos. [4
Cthulhu is a fictional cosmic entity created by writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was introduced in his short story "The Call of Cthulhu", [2] published by the American pulp ...
This is a complete list of works by H. P. Lovecraft.Dates for the fiction, collaborations and juvenilia are in the format: composition date / first publication date, taken from An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia by S. T. Joshi and D. E. Schultz, Hippocampus Press, New York, 2001.
Title of a French aristocrat and the fictional author of Cultes des Goules, inspired by the ancestral form of Mythos author August Derleth's name. The fictional writer is first mentioned in Robert Bloch's 1935 story "The Suicide in the Study", which calls his book "ghastly". Lovecraft uses the name in two 1935 stories, "The Shadow Out of Time ...
August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. He was the first book publisher of the writings of H. P. Lovecraft.He made contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos and the cosmic horror genre and helped found the publisher Arkham House (which did much to bring supernatural fiction into print in hardcover in the US that had only been readily ...