Considered one of the best short stories of Lovecraft’s early period, aspects of The Cats of Ulthar would be referenced again in the author’s works The Other Gods and The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath. It was first published in the literary journal Tryout in November 1920 and now resides...
The measured optimism ofCall Of The Sea, going by developer comments, is meant to go against the mood usually seen in the horror stories of Howard Philips Lovecraft, a reclusive New England horror writer whoseCthulhu MythosandDream Cycleseries of stories pioneered the sub-genre of Cosmic Horror,...
These are theonlyplaces in Lovecraft’s fiction where he mentions Hastur. Lovecraft borrowed the term “Hastur” from Robert W. Chambers, who had, in turn, borrowed it from Ambrose Bierce. In Bierce’s “Haïta the Shepherd,” Hastur is “the god of shepherds.” Chambers borrowed the term...
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