H.P. Lovecraft is best known for his work on Cthulhu Mythos, which has inspired a large body of music, games, pastiches, and other media drawing on Lovecraft’s themes, setting, and characters, creating a wider subject royal called the Lovecraftian Horror. Who Is H.P Lovecraft? Born on...
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...
By H. P. Lovecraft I. It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than the man I shot in his cell at the Arkham Sanitarium. Later...