ALA Booklist Starred Review – Issue: December 15, 2015H. P. Lovecraft and his Mythos have seen a resurgence in popularity in the last 10 years, in both popular and scholarly circles, but this collection stands out among the crowd. Editor French selected 12 of the key deities from ...
The book that Atticus browses in George's shops is one of the most significant in Lovecraft's oeuvre.The Outsider And Other Storiescontains two other popular Lovecraft stories, “The Call of Cthulhu” (more on that later) and “The Horror at Red Hook.” The book along with many of Lovec...
There is no question that HP Lovecraft, influential writer of horror fiction and son of Providence, held views that were clearly racist, outdated outliers even by the standards of his time. My goal here is not to excuse his racism, but to place it in a context of Lovecraft as a human b...
Once more I say that I have no clear idea of our object on that night. Certainly, it had much to do with something in the book which Warren carried with him—that ancient book in undecipherable characters which had come to him from India a month before—but I swear I do not know w...
This collection of “Additional Monsters for RuneQuest” was created by Sandy Petersen. The “H.P. Lovecraft Creations” chapter includes statistics for Deep Ones, the Great Race, the Mi-Go, Nightgaunts, the Old Ones, Shoggoths, and Spawn of Yog-Sothoth. Petersen went on to create the Ca...
Lovecraft’s complete list of works along with a short summary: 1) The Alchemist – 1916 Book Summary: For over 600 years the male descendants of the Chabrillane family have all inexplicably perished on their 32nd birthday. The legend of the curse began the night Henri Chabrillane, killed...