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H. P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft (Howard Phillips Lovecraft), 1890-1937, American writer, b. Providence, R.I. A master of Gothic horror, fantasy, and science fiction of a most rococo variety, he is particularly noted for his many nightmarish short stories. Most of these are set in his native New England and many or... Read more
Paul Celan
Paul Celan , pseud. of Paul Antschel , 1920-70, Romanian-French poet. Although he spent his early years in Romania and his later years in France, Celan wrote in German and is widely considered the greatest postwar poet in Europe. A Jew, who lost both parents in a Nazi camp, he composed works that... Read more
Lon Chaney
Lon Chaney , 1883-1930, American film actor, b. Colorado Springs, Colo. Chaney was the son of deaf-mute parents. He made more than 150 silent films. A master of the use of grotesque, distorting makeup, he is best remembered for his work in horror films such as The Phantom of the Opera (1925). His ... Read more
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. 1922-2007, American novelist, b. Indianapolis. After serving in a World War II combat unit, he worked as a police reporter. Marked by wry black humor, Vonnegut's satirical, pessimistic, and morally urgent novels frequently protest the horrors of the 20th cent., as in the best-sel... Read more
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes , 1892-1982, American author, b. Cornwall, N.Y. She is best known for her modernist novel Nightwood (1936), which, in its sense of horror and decay, was likened by T. S. Eliot, who edited the book, to an Elizabethan tragedy. Barnes also wrote several one-act plays produced by the Pro... Read more
William Wymark Jacobs
William Wymark Jacobs 1863-1943, English author. His humorous sea stories were first collected in Many Cargoes (1896). Of his several horror stories, the most famous is "The Monkey's Paw." ... Read more
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann , 1776-1822, German romantic novelist and composer, a lawyer. At one time an opera composer and musical director at Bamberg and a gifted music critic, he is most famous as a master of the gothic tale. His stories of madness, grotesquerie, horror, and the supernatural i... Read more
Gothic romance
Gothic romance type of novel that flourished in the late 18th and early 19th cent. in England. Gothic romances were mysteries, often involving the supernatural and heavily tinged with horror, and they were usually set against dark backgrounds of medieval ruins and haunted castles. The Castle of Ot... Read more
Pol Pot
Pol Pot 1925-98, Cambodian political leader, originally named Saloth Sar. Paris-educated, and a Khmer Communist leader from 1960, he led Khmer Rouge guerrillas against the government of Lon Nol after 1970. In 1975 he proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Kampuchea and served as its premier (197... Read more
Boris Karloff
Boris Karloff , 1887-1969, Anglo-American actor, b. Dulwich, England; his original name was William Henry Pratt. A distinguished character actor with a superb speaking voice, Karloff was famous for his monster roles in Hollywood horror films, notably Frankenstein (1931). His other movies include ... Read more

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H. P. Lovecraft
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) is widely considered the most important literary...Joseph Addison and Samuel Johnson. Although Lovecraft wrote several horror stories after his first reading in 1898 of the tales of Poe, he...
Lovecraft, H. P.
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature Lovecraft, H. P., see fantasy fiction ; horror .
Lovecraft, H(oward) P(hillips) (1890-1937)
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology Lovecraft, H(oward) P(hillips) (1890...died in 1904. Lovecraft himself grew up as...with fantasy and horror themes remained too...literary output, Lovecraft made very little...Derleth, August. H.P.L.: A Memoir...
horror
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature horror and fantasy have been with...1897) are landmarks in horror/fantasy, but so too, it...others. In the 20th cent. horror/fantasy fiction was more...early 20th cent. is probably H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937...
Cthulhu Mythos
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Occultism and Parapsychology ...biographer and editor of H. P. Lovecraft, writer of supernatural...Lovecraft for a group of horror stories. According to Derleth, Lovecraft once told him...Carter, Lin. Lovecraft: A Look Behind...The Dream Quest of H. P. Lovecraft. San...

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Tradition and illusion: antiquarianism, tourism and horror in H. P. Lovecraft.(Critical Essay)(Biography)
Magazine article from: Extrapolation; 6/22/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...childhood dreams. --Lovecraft ("Background," The...personality and interests of H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937), the...antimodernist ideology (1), a horror at what he perceived...Island. Scholarship on Lovecraft has proliferated recently...
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth Ships to North American Retail Stores; First-Person Horror Game for Xbox Based on H.P. Lovecraft's Renowned 'Cthulhu Mythos'.
Business Wire; 10/24/2005; 700+ words ; ...highly anticipated survival horror game for the Xbox(R...Earth is a first-person horror game that allows for dynamic...inspired by the writing of H.P. Lovecraft, an American fantasy and horror writer. Lovecraft, whose work has profoundly...
hagiography MARK SANDERSON STIFLES A GIGGLE AT THIS PO-FACED homage to a horror writer H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life BY MICHEL HOUELLEBECQ WEIDENFELD & NICOLSON, pounds 10, 245 pp T pounds 10 ( pounds 1.25 p&p) 0870 428 4115
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Telegraph London; 7/23/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...phrases come from his essay on the horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, which was originally published...describes his appreciation of Lovecraft as 'a sort of first novel...It is a short ramble through Lovecraft's life and work (40 or so...
Reunion horrors Lovecraft's creatures uniting to freak outfans all over again
Newspaper article from: The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; 3/31/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...actually the creatures of H.P. Lovecraft, one of the greatest horror writers of all time...slime-exuding beings, Lovecraft spread terror throughout...the recent release of "H.P. Lovecraft: Tales" (Library of...
The Horror in the Theater: An H.P. Lovecraft Triptych of Terror
Magazine article from: The Stranger; 10/15/2003; ; 527 words ; ...ghoulishly moonlit and blood-drenched horror, especially if it has a nice thick...pulp pulled from the wretched pen of H. P. Lovecraft. The old lunatic wrote some pretty...operandi between "the Regime" and H. P.'s mythic Old Ones are staggering...
El horror tiene nombre: Lovecraft.(Primera Fila)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 9/6/2002; 639 words ; ...gore-macabros de H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937...estados de nimo de horror y descomposicin...de los relatos de Lovecraft influyeron en las...ms increbles de Lovecraft revuelta con el...Dexter Ward. Maratn H.P. Lovecraft. Ex...
Lovecraft: el horror cosmico.(Primera Fila)
Newspaper article from: Reforma (México D.F., México); 8/23/2002; 672 words ; ...el II Festival de Horror Csmico en el Circo...a Howard Philips Lovecraft, adems de un encuentro...Cabe suponer a Lovecraft como su heredero...transformado por Lovecraft en un bestiario...mitos de Cthulhu, H. P. Lovecraft y otros...
LOVECRAFT, `THE COPERNICUS OF THE HORROR STORY'
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 1/30/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...taste for stories of horror and the supernatural...appearance next week of "H. P. Lovecraft: Tales" as the latest...more an impression of Lovecraft than we have any particular...years our apprehension of Lovecraft's work has been fatally...
Charioteer of the Gods: H.P. Lovecraft and the invention of ancient astronauts.
Magazine article from: Skeptic (Altadena, CA); 1/1/2004; ; 700+ words ; ...certain New England writer of horror stories, and the journey...question is none other than H. P. Lovecraft, from Providence, Rhode...wealthy family in 1890, Lovecraft's life was a series of...including the novels of H.G. Wells, whose War...
THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA SCARES UP A COLLECTION OF LOVECRAFT'S LOCAL LORE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 2/15/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...of the weird tales of H.P. Lovecraft. How can a trip on the...Massachusetts of "The Dunwich Horror." In addition to the...New England settings, Lovecraft's tales are marked...Penguin Books edition of Lovecraft's tales, by "plot...