Few video games are direct adaptations of Lovecraft's works, but many video games have been inspired or heavily influenced by Lovecraft. Besides employing Cthulthean antagonists, games that invoke Lovecraftian horror have used mechanics such as insanity effects, or even fourth wall breaking effects that suggest to players that something has gone wrong with their game consoles. Aside from his thinly veiled appearance in Robert Bloch's "The Shambler from the Stars", Lovecraft continues to be used as a character in supernatural fiction.
An early version of Ray Bradbury 's "The Exiles" [] uses Lovecraft as a character, who makes a brief, word appearance eating ice cream in front of a fire and complaining about how cold he is. Lovecraft makes an appearance as a rotting corpse in The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont , a novel with fictionalized versions of a number of period writers.
German writer Wolfgang Hohlbein used H. Lovecraft as a main character in his pulp fiction series Der Hexer The Wizard , which is mainly based on the Cthulhu Mythos, even though the plot takes place before Lovecraft was born. Necronomicon , Witch Hunt , Out of Mind: The Stories of H.
Lovecraft , Stargate SG Roswell , and Alan Moore 's comic Providence — A satirical version of Lovecraft named "H. Hatecraft" appeared as a recurring character on the Cartoon Network television series Scooby-Doo! A character based on Lovecraft also appears in the visual novel Shikkoku no Sharnoth: Howard" to most of the main characters. Another character based on Lovecraft appears in Afterlife with Archie. He is eventually killed when his body becomes host to an extradimensional being infecting the timestream.
Even his power, "The Great Old Ones" pays homage to his classic book, " The Call of Cthulhu ", which grants him the ability of transforming himself into an octopus-like monster resembling Cthulhu.
H. P. Lovecraft
The short story "The Invention of H. Azoulay suggests that Lovecraft was a fictional creation invented by Jorge Luis Borges. In Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom , Howard Lovecraft is re-imagined as a seven year old version of himself, long before he became the famed horror writer H. For most of the 20th century, the definitive editions specifically At the Mountains of Madness and Other Novels , Dagon and Other Macabre Tales , The Dunwich Horror and Others , and The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions of his prose fiction were published by Arkham House , a publisher originally started with the intent of publishing the work of Lovecraft, but which has since published a considerable amount of other literature as well.
Penguin Classics has at present issued three volumes of Lovecraft's works: They collect the standard texts as edited by S. Joshi, most of which were available in the Arkham House editions, with the exception of the restored text of "The Shadow Out of Time" from The Dreams in the Witch House , which had been previously released by small-press publisher Hippocampus Press.
In the prestigious Library of America canonized Lovecraft with a volume of his stories edited by Peter Straub , and Random House's Modern Library line have issued the "definitive edition" of Lovecraft's At the Mountains of Madness also including " Supernatural Horror in Literature ". Lovecraft's poetry is collected in The Ancient Track: The Complete Poetical Works of H. Lovecraft Night Shade Books, , while much of his juvenilia, various essays on philosophical, political and literary topics, antiquarian travelogues, and other things, can be found in Miscellaneous Writings Arkham House, Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature", first published in , is a historical survey of horror literature available with endnotes as The Annotated Supernatural Horror in Literature.
Although Lovecraft is known mostly for his works of weird fiction , the bulk of his writing consists of voluminous letters about a variety of topics, from weird fiction and art criticism to politics and history. Sprague de Camp estimates that Lovecraft wrote , letters in his lifetime, a fifth of which are believed to survive.
He sometimes dated his letters years before the current date, which would have put the writing back in US colonial times, before the American Revolution a war that offended his Anglophilia. He explained that he thought that the 18th and 20th centuries were the "best", the former being a period of noble grace, and the latter a century of science.
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Lovecraft was not an active letter-writer in youth. In he admitted: The initial interest in letters stemmed from his correspondence with his cousin Phillips Gamwell but even more important was his involvement in the amateur journalism movement, which was initially responsible for the enormous number of letters Lovecraft produced. Despite his light letter-writing in youth, in later life his correspondence was so voluminous that it has been estimated that he may have written around 30, letters to various correspondents, a figure which places him second only to Voltaire as an epistolarian.
Lovecraft's later correspondence is primarily to fellow weird fiction writers, rather than to the amateur journalist friends of his earlier years. Lovecraft clearly states that his contact to numerous different people through letter-writing was one of the main factors in broadening his view of the world: My understanding and sympathies were enlarged, and many of my social, political, and economic views were modified as a consequence of increased knowledge.
Today there are five publishing houses that have released letters from Lovecraft, most prominently Arkham House with its five-volume edition Selected Letters these volumes severely abridge the letters they contain. The Letters of H. Lovecraft and Donald Wandrei et al. Lovecraft's Letters to R. Joshi is supervising an ongoing series of volumes collecting Lovecraft's unabridged letters to particular correspondents.
Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters was published in , in which Lovecraft's letters are arranged according to themes, such as adolescence and travel. Despite several claims to the contrary, there is currently no evidence that any company or individual owns the copyright to any of Lovecraft's work, and it is generally accepted that it has passed into the public domain.
There has been controversy over the copyright status of many of Lovecraft's works, especially his later works. Lovecraft had specified that the young R. Barlow would serve as executor of his literary estate , [] but these instructions were not incorporated into the will. Nevertheless, his surviving aunt carried out his expressed wishes, and Barlow was given charge of the massive and complex literary estate upon Lovecraft's death.
Barlow deposited the bulk of the papers, including the voluminous correspondence, with the John Hay Library , and attempted to organize and maintain Lovecraft's other writing. August Derleth , an older and more established writer than Barlow, vied for control of the literary estate. One result of these conflicts was the legal confusion over who owned what copyrights. All works published before are public domain in the US. Before the United States Copyright Act of , copyright lasted for 28 years from publication and a work that did not have its copyright renewed passed into the public domain.
The Copyright Act of retroactively extended this renewal period for all works to a period of 47 years [] and the Sonny Bono Copyright Term Extension Act of added another 20 years to that, for a total of 95 years from publication. But everything turned on the renewal or expiration of copyright at the end of the first year term.
The European Union Copyright Duration Directive of extended the copyrights to 70 years after the author's death. All of Lovecraft's works published during his lifetime became public domain in all 27 European Union countries on January 1, In those Berne Convention countries that have implemented only the minimum copyright period, copyright expires 50 years after the author's death. On October 9, , Derleth purchased all rights to Weird Tales. However, since April at the latest, Lovecraft had reserved to himself all second printing rights to stories published in Weird Tales.
Weird Tales may only have owned the rights to at most six of Lovecraft's tales. Again, even if Derleth did obtain the copyrights to Lovecraft's tales, there is no evidence that the copyrights were renewed. Joshi concludes in his biography of Lovecraft that Derleth's claims are "almost certainly fictitious" and that most of Lovecraft's works published in the amateur press are most likely now in the public domain. The copyright for Lovecraft's works would have been inherited by the only surviving heir named in his will, his aunt Annie Gamwell.
When Gamwell died in , the copyrights passed to her remaining descendants, Ethel Phillips Morrish and Edna Lewis, who then signed a document, sometimes referred to as the Morrish-Lewis gift, permitting Arkham House to republish Lovecraft's works while retaining the copyrights for themselves. Searches of the Library of Congress have failed to find any evidence that these copyrights were renewed after the year period, making it likely that these works are now in the public domain.
Chaosium, publishers of the Call of Cthulhu role-playing game, have a trademark on the phrase "The Call of Cthulhu" for use in game products.
TSR later agreed to remove this section at Chaosium's request. In , Lovecraft Holdings, LLC, a company based out of Providence, filed trademark claims for clothing graphics of Lovecraft's name and silhouette. Regardless of the legal disagreements surrounding Lovecraft's works, Lovecraft himself was extremely generous with his own works and encouraged others to borrow ideas from his stories and build on them, particularly with regard to his Cthulhu Mythos.
In , writer Donald Wandrei caused some controversy after he was offered a World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement but refused to accept it because the award was a bust of H. Lovecraft that he felt looked more like a caricature of Lovecraft than an actual representation.
Maroney, editor of The New York Review of Science Fiction , also supported the call for the WFA to be changed from Lovecraft's face, suggesting it be replaced with a symbol representing the fantasy genre. Maroney argued this should be done "not out of disrespect for Lovecraft as a writer or as a central figure in fantasy, but as a courtesy to generations of writers whom the WFA hopes to honor. Lovecraft drew extensively from his native New England for settings in his fiction.
Numerous real historical locations are mentioned, and several fictional New England locations make frequent appearances. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the author.
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February Learn how and when to remove this template message. Now all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large. To me there is nothing but puerility in a tale in which the human form—and the local human passions and conditions and standards—are depicted as native to other worlds or other universes.
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Only the human scenes and characters must have human qualities. These must be handled with unsparing realism , not catch-penny romanticism but when we cross the line to the boundless and hideous unknown—the shadow-haunted Outside —we must remember to leave our humanity and terrestrialism at the threshold. This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
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Joshi's biography I Am Providence. Eddy, Muriel and C. The Gentleman From Angell Street: The Eddys were fellow writers, and Mr. Eddy was a frequent contributor to Weird Tales. The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. An unabridged reprint in two volumes of Joshi's biography, newly retitled I Am Providence , was published in by Hippocampus Press. The Rise and Fall of the Cthulhu Mythos Mythos Books, is the first full-length critical study since Lin Carter's to examine the development of Lovecraft's Mythos and its outworking in the oeuvres of various modern writers.
Alone in Space," chapter 3 in Emperors of Dreams: Some Notes on Weird Poetry by S. Long was a friend and correspondent of Lovecraft, as well as a fellow fantasist who wrote a number of Lovecraft-influenced Cthulhu Mythos stories including The Hounds of Tindalos. An English translation of Michel Houellebecq 's H. A study of Lovecraft's conceptions about philosophy and literature.
Other significant Lovecraft-related works are An H. Lovecraft Encyclopedia by Joshi and David S. A Catalogue a meticulous listing of many of the books in Lovecraft's now scattered library , by Joshi; Lovecraft at Last, an account by Willis Conover of his teenage correspondence with Lovecraft; Joshi's A Subtler Magick: Lovecraft's prose fiction being published as corrected texts were released by Arkham House in the s, and many other collections of his stories have appeared, including Ballantine Books editions and three Del Rey editions.
Some of Lovecraft's writings are annotated with footnotes or endnotes. Lovecraft as well as More Annotated H. Lovecraft , both of which are footnoted extensively. Joshi is an anthology of 13 essays on Lovecraft excluding Joshi's lengthy introduction on the centennial of Lovecraft's birth. The authors include S. Faig, Jr, Jason C. Eckhardt, Will Murray, Donald R.
Gatford and Barton Levi St. The Intersection of Fantasy and Native America: Sturgis and David D. Oberhelman Mythopoeic Press, Issues covered include the acceptance of his early submissions, his role in the reorganization, and his recruitment as editor. Lovecraft at Wikipedia's sister projects. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward. Some Notes on a Nonentity. Lovecraft Encyclopedia Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft Historical Society Necronomicon Lovecraft: Lovecraft 's The Shadow over Innsmouth Cthulhu Dagon Cthulhu Innsmouth The Shadow over Innsmouth.
Lovecraft 's " The Call of Cthulhu " The Call of Cthulhu. Dark Adventure Radio Theatre: See templates for discussion to help reach a consensus. Lovecraft 's " Cool Air ". Cool Air Chill Lovecraft 's At the Mountains of Madness Prisoner of Ice A Colder War. The Best Weird Tales of H. The printed book was the result of a successful IndieGoGo campaign that ended in and can still be purchased from their website. Seuss, because he has been created Seuss inspired versions of H.
Lovecraft stories for five years. A story about budding investigators looking for their missing Shoggoth. There is a free audio version of the book as well as free coloring pages, the book even comes with a family-style board game on the inside cover! Definitely something here for the whole family.
Finally today comes not just a book, but an entire publisher dedicated to creating kid-friendly Cthulhian horror; Littlest Lovecraft. Their books come full color and are written in verse. Until next time, stay sane. Delta Green at Gen Con