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erimiaI've finally finished this list which I started compiling in 2015. It's more a draft, because I'm planning to add things like publication/release dates, links to the stuff that is awailable online, collections for the short stories, and credit the authors of those descriptions that are not mine. Unfortunately, a lot of information here is taken from a thread on some forum that I can't find now, or even several of them (one was apparently a post in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's blog which may be not online now).
Web Original
- Midnight Pals by bitterkarella (Twitter-based comedy fanfiction series about famous horror writers telling their stories as tales near the campfire)
- Ask Lovecraft by Leeman Kessler (impersonation show on Youtube where resurrected Lovecraft answers questions from the fans)
Webcomics
- The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) by François Launet (a light-hearted webcomic about Great Old Ones; Lovecraft appears in some strips)
- Lovecraft is Missing by Larry Latham ("it is the autumn of 1926, and horror author H. P. Lovecraft is not where he's supposed to be. His friend-by-post and fellow writing enthusiast Orwin Battler has traveled from Oklahoma to see him; occult expert Father Jackey is after missing pages from a rare book most recently in Lovecraft's possession; University librarian Nan Mercy is after the book pages as well as personal revenge against Lovecraft's probable kidnappers.")
- Lovely Lovecraft by MalakiaLaGatta (a comic about child Lovecraft interacting with his characters in Arkham and Dreamlands)
- Young Lovecraft by José Oliver and Bartolo Torres ("each panel in this series imagines how Lovecraft’s childhood would have occurred had he been visited by the horrendous creatures that later appeared in his finest fiction")
Comic Books
- No Way Out in Ghostly Haunts #28, December 1972
- Lovers by Alex CF (one-off comic book about Lovecraft and Shub-Niggurath)
- R.H.B. by Andreas (Andreas Martens) and Rivière (François Rivière) (a bio-comic of R. H. Barlow)
- Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom by Bruce Brown and Renzo Podesta (child Lovecraft having adventures in a frozen world)
- Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom by Bruce Brown, Dwight L. MacPherson, Thomas Boatwright
- Howard Lovecraft and the Three Kingdoms by Bruce Brown, Thomas Boatwright, Renzo Podestá
- The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft by Mac Carter (focuses both on HPL fighting his own creations and his difficult writer career; Lovecraft's creatures come to life when he's asleep)
- Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time by Brian Clevinger ("Atomic Robo has to fight a monster that sprang from the mind of HPL")
- Poe and Phillips by Jaime Collado and Miguel Cedillo (Poe and Lovecraft teaming up against an ancient emperor who wants to take over the world)
- Planetary by Warren Ellis (Lovecraft dissaproves of sea creature eggs)
- Some Notes on a Nonentity: The Life of H.P. Lovecraft by Sam Gafford, Jason C. Eckhardt (biographical graphic novel detailing Lovecraft's life from the beginning to the end)
- The Crossroads: A Lovecraftian comic board book by Terrance Grace and Silvio DB (Lovecraft in Red Hook "finds himself standing at water’s edge, face to face with Yog-Sothoth and his own internal abyss")
- H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937 by George Kuchar (a grotesquely drawn biographical comic)
- Providence by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows (main character meets many Lovecraft's characters and eventually the man himself; an unusual example where Lovecraft is unaware that the things he wrote about were real)
- Recognition by Alan Moore (a story about Lovecraft's father Winfield Scott Lovecraft)
- H. P. Lovecraft: He Who Wrote in the Darkness: A Graphic Novel by Alex Nikolavitch, Gervasio-Aon-Lee (biographical graphic novel about the last 12 years of Lovecraft's life)
- Necronauts by Gordon Rennie, Frazer Irving (H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Fort battling evil forces)
- Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff, Keith Giffen, Enrique Breccia (a particularly gruesome example of the "Lovecraft wrote about real things" trope; follows Lovecraft from childhood to the end of his relationship with Sonia)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Ancient Gods by Ralph E. Vaughan, Earl Geier ("During a trip through New England, an aged Sherlock Holmes is asked to find a missing man. The trail leads to the home of American fantasy writer HP Lovecraft, who gives information that sends the eminently logical detective in a surprising direction.")
Movies and TV
- Supernatural, season 6, episode 21 "Let it Bleed"
- Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom
- Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom
- Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness
- Murdoch Mysteries ("Set in the early 1900s, when Lovecraft was a young teenager, the episode imagined Lovecraft as a Goth youth spending a season with his Canadian aunt. In Toronto, he became something of an autistic necrophiliac (presumably in the manner of the story “The Loved Dead”) who had an obsession with a rotten corpse. The show also implied that he had the psychic power to project monstrous fantasies into women’s minds." Summary by Jason Colavito)
- Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (Lovecraft is a sort of an action hero who steals Necronomicon from cultists)
- Out of Mind: The Stories of HPL (HPL meets the descendant of Randolph Carter)
- La Sombra Prohibida ("included Lovecraft as a character. Though not directly based on Lovecraft’s stories, it draws from his universe to tell the story of a woman who travels to an old mansion in the Spanish countryside, the Valdemar House, where odd things have happened through the years.")
Audios
- Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft By Sara Davies and Abigail Youngman (a BBC radio drama about Lovecraft's marriage to Sonia Greene)
- The Lovecraft Invasion by Robert Valentine (Doctor Who audio from Big Finish. Doctor and companions enter Lovecraft's mind to fight a psychic invader)
Books
Plays
- Howard, mon amour by Martine Chifflot-Comazzi (23 phantasmagorical scenes from the marriage of Sonia Greene and H.P. Lovecraft)
- Monstrous Invisible by Stephen Near (set at the end of Lovecraft's life, explores his relationship with Sonia Greene)
- Night Gaunts: An Entertainment Based On The Life And Writings Of H.P. Lovecraft, With Additional Poetica Lovecraftiana by Brett Rutherford (a short play based on Lovecraft's biography)
Novels
- The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker (a ghost story about the last years of Lovecraft's life)
- Shadows Bend by David Barbour and Richard Raleigh (Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard fighting servants of the Old Ones on a road trip through Dust Bowl)
- The Lovecraft Chronicles by Peter H. Cannon (an alternate history novel where Lovecraft lives till 1960; written in the form of three fictional memoirs)
- Pulptime by Peter H. Cannon (a short mystery novel in which Lovecraft meets Sherlock Holmes. Set in New York, Frank Long also plays a large role)
- The Planet of Tasteless Pleasure by Harry Harrison (the fourth book in the Bill, the Galactic Hero series; contains a scene parodying Silverberg's novel with Lovecraft, Howard and Gilgamesh)
- The Assaults of Chaos by S. T. Joshi (a novel where young Lovecraft meets his not-actually-dead father, travels to England, meets famous weird fiction writers, romances an original female character and faces a "cosmic menace")
- Honeymoon in Jail: H. P. Lovecraft, Detective by S. T. Joshi (“my little detective novel featuring Lovecraft and Sonia as detectives")
- The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge (a scholar obsessed with Lovecraft and Barlow relationship goes off the deep end; the relationship is presented in the novel as a romance)
- Corvus Rex by J.H. Kimbrell
- Innswich Horror by Edward Lee (Lovecraft comes back to life as a zombie)
- Lucifer’s Lottery by Edward Lee (the main character meets Lovecraft who is a tour guide in hell)
- Pages Torn From a Travel Journal by Edward Lee (Lovecraft visits a seedy carnival while on a bus ride)
- Trolley 1852 by Edward Lee (Lovecraft is hired to write a porn novel; most of the story is the said novel)
- Lovecraft’s Book by Richard Lupoff (Lovecraft is hired by George Sylvester Viereck to write an American "Mein Kampf")
- Marblehead by Richard Lupoff (a longer version of Lovecraft’s Book. "Marblehead is a huge work, encompassing all of 1927, a year in which H.P. Lovecraft, researching a book he'd been hired to write for the Nazis, travels the East Coast in the company of Charles Sylvester Viereck.")
- The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont (Lovecraft is a murder victim whose death sets in motion the events of the book)
- Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore (a secondary character based on Lovecraft runs a cafe)
- The Other Lovecraft by Kyle Paquet ("HPL as the creator of a world full of his imaginary creatures, who need his help.")
- The Secret Life of H.P. Lovecraft by W.J. Renehan ("This is not a book about the “Secret” life of H.P. Lovecraft, but more a monologue about how each one of the more famous stories that came from HPL’s fevered mind “could” have been inspired by a series of black envelopes." Description from Goodreads by Vincent Piazza)
- In the Lair of the Dreamer by Franlyn Searight (Lovecraft's ghost appears)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson (often alluded to and appears as a character, so do his aunt Annie Gamwell and the poet Hart Crane)
- Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg (Lovecraft and Robert Howard interact with Gilgamesh in hell)
- Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling, John Coulthart (Lovecraft makes a cameo as a publicity agent for Houdini)
- Equioid by Charles Stross (features a letter from Lovecraft about meeting the titular creature)
- The Lovecraft Coven by Donald Tyson ("Lovecraft wakes up in an insane asylum at Providence almost eighty years after his own death, trapped in the body of a man he never knew and hunted by shadow walkers determined to destroy him. His sole hope is to enter the fictional world he created for his short stories and find the Necronomicon, which has been stolen from Miskatonic University.")
- The Arcanum by Thomas Wheeler (Lovecraft is a member of the Arcanum secret society, together with Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Marie Laveau and others)
- Der Hexer von Salem by Wolfgang Hohlbein (The Hexer from Salem)
- Посмотри в глаза чудовищ by Андрей Лазарчук, Михаил Успенский (Look at the Eyes of Monsters by Andrei Lazarchuk and Mikhail Uspenski; cryptohistoric novel about the Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev, has a cameo of Lovecraft)
Short Stories
- The Invention of H. P. Lovecraft by S. K. Azoulay ("suggests that Lovecraft was a fictional creation invented by Jorge Luis Borges". Flapperhouse Magazine, Fall 2016)
- Shadow of the Immortal by Charles L. Baker (published in Eldritch Tales #11 1985, #13, #14 1987)
- Christmas with Uncle Lovecraft by Bruce J. Balfour (Crypt of Cthulhu 52, Yuletide 1987)
- Fine Bindings by R. H. Barlow (a story about characters who seem to be partially based on Lovecraft and his mother)
- The Dark Demon by Robert Bloch ("Bloch creates a character that is obviously HPL in Edgar Henquist Gordon. The man is tall and pale, writes horror stories for small magazines and is a bit of a recluse, though he has hundreds of correspondents." First published in Weird Tales, November 1936)
- Shambler From the Stars by Robert Bloch (narrator's friend whom he asks to translate De Vermis Mysteriis from Latin is based on Lovecraft)
- Shadow From the Steeple by Robert Bloch (Lovecraft is one of the people investigating the death of Robert Blake)
- The Suicide in the Study by Robert Bloch (as Luveh-Keraph, high priest of Bast in Ancient Egypt)
- The Ultimate Ultimatum by Robert Bloch (Lovecraft is present among other horror writers in a large convention of writers and fans held in a large crypt)
- The Exiles by Ray Bradbury (Lovecraft appears among other horror writers in the unedited version, sitting near the chimney and eating ice-cream)
- Persistence of Memory by Jason V Brock ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Worlds Apart by Donald R. Burleson ("Stephen Woodworth and Donald R. Burleson ring changes on the Lovecraftian theme of personality exchange." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash by Ramsey Campbell ("Presented as the letters of a little-known writer, annotated by Campbell, this is not only a commentary on Lovecraft but pathological fan psychology and concludes with hints of genuine otherworldly horror. These are Nash’s letters to Lovecraft between 1925 to 1937. Nash starts out as a fawning fan but gradually becomes more abusive." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)
- Asceticism and Lust: The Greatest Lovecraft Revision by Peter H. Cannon ("HPL revising a piece titled "Tropic of Cthulhu" with Henry Miller... written as a scholarly article bringing to light a previously-unknown Lovecraft revision." From Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft and Other Essays.)
- The Madness Out of Space by Peter H. Cannon (a somewhat humorous Mythos story where a character heavily based on HPL meets Nyarlathotep. Published in Forever Azathoth: Parodies and Pastiches)
- The Lurker in the Shadows by Nathan Carson (Lovecraft lives till 1970s and strikes up a correspondence with Stephen King. Published in Cthulhu Fhtagn!)
- Weird Tales by Fred Chappell (Lovecraft meeting Hart Crane)
- Masters of Terror by Laurence Cornford ("a DOCTOR WHO story which features HPL meeting up with the renegade Time Lord known as the Master, to battle a cache of lizard-man Silurians hidden deep in the swamps of Chepachet, Rhode Island . . . and based on HPL's own experiences venturing in those very environs, alongside C. M. Eddy, Jr")
- The Volume Out of Print by Jim Cort
- Titanic: QED by Catt Dahman
- Correlated Discontents by Rick Dakan ("The grad student of “Correlated Discontents” is helping develop an intelligent software assistant which will work with natural language to make context-appropriate responses. During a beta demonstration fielding audience questions at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, things begin to go wrong. The student finds himself identifying more and more with a Lovecraft simulacrum and seeing him as the answer to some of his social inadequacies." Published in Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror. Summary by Randy Stafford)
- The Lamp of Alhazred by August Derleth (Derleth's tribute to HPL and to his imagination)
- Return to Providence by George C. Diezell, II
- Howard Lovecraft and the Terror from Beyond by Robert M. Eber
- Howard Lovecraft and . . . by Eldon K, Everett
- Alice at R’lyeh by Murray Ewing ("Alice meets Howard Phillips Lovecraft in the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, and there they discuss nonsense & meaninglessness, until interrupted by... Certain Entities of an Unusual Nature... Bringing together the imaginative worlds of H P Lovecraft and Lewis Carroll, Alice at R’lyeh explores the black seas of infinity, the dangers of adding two and two, and the advantages of being fictional.")
- Lovecrafting by Orrin Grey (published in Letters to Lovecraft)
- Tales of the Lovecraft Collectors By Kenneth Faig, Jr. ("In the first two tales Faig sets up elaborate locales and suitably Lovecraftian characters who hint darkly that HPL's recurring themes of undying evil and secret cults may have been based on more than just fantasy. The second also tries, oddly, to draw a link between Lovecraft's cults and the pagan underpinnings of the Nazis. The third tale examines whether or not the inspiration for HPL's 'Nyarlathotep' character was an obscure Victorian African American magician.")
- Passing Spirits by Sam Gafford ("Lovecraft is a ghost. Or, maybe, something of an incarnation of his fiction. Or maybe he’s just the hallucination of the narrator who is dying of brain cancer while he continues to work at a bookstore. He’s not going to be getting medical treatment because he can’t afford it. Lovecraft, only visible to the narrator, makes wry comments on the narrator’s life and recommends stoicism to the dying man." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)
- Midnight in Providence by Charles Garofalo
- How Could It Be Elsewise? by Richard Gavin ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Basilisk by David Hambling ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Old Letters by Phillip C. Heath
- Susie by Jason Van Hollander (story about the last days of Lovecraft's mother, implies that "she has long been in contact with something monstrous from outside our world and that it impregnated her and expected to use Lovecraft to usher in “the Dawn of a Thousand Young”." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)
- A Meeting Beneath the Moon by Mark Howard Jones (His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- A Gentleman of Providence Pens a Letter by Ben P. Indick
- In His Own Handwriting by S. T. Joshi ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Glimmer in the Darkness by Asamatsu Ken ("a combination of Lovecraft and the UFO phenomenon." Published in Letters to Lovecraft)
- The Black Druid by Frank Belknap Long (character based on Lovecraft confronts the representation of his anxieties)
- The Space Eaters by Frank Belknap Long (narrator's friend Howard is a horror writer who's having difficulties with his new story)
- Turn out the Light by Penelope Love (a story focusing on Lovecraft's mother Sarah Susan Lovecraft)
- Brattleboro Days, Yuggoth Nights by Nick Mamatas (Lovecraft and his Vermont acquaintance Arthur Goodenough discuss Whisperer in the Darkness in microscopic text on a postcard)
- The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt ("tells of a mixed-race young man (part African American) named Jim Payne whose great-grandfather, Cavanaugh Payne, corresponded with Lovecraft")
- Jitterbuggin’ by Nick Mamatas (a letter from Lovecraft to Jack Kerouac)
- Falco Ossifracus by Edith Miniter (an early parody of Lovecraft's writings and personality)
- Lovecraft in Heaven by Grant Morrison (a psychedelic story about Lovecraft's last days)
- Night-Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates (about characters based on Lovecraft's family; a sort of "what if" where his father gets institutionalized a bit later in life)
- The Armies of the Night by Reggie Oliver ("These stories feature Lovecraft as a character and describe his time working with J. Edger Hoover to assist the HPL." Published in The Lovecraft Squad)
- Ec’h-pi-el by Reggie Oliver ("These stories feature Lovecraft as a character and describe his time working with J. Edger Hoover to assist the HPL." Published in The Lovecraft Squad)
- A Gentleman of Darkness by W.H. Pugmire ("While eschewing Lovecraft himself as a character, the tales by W. H. Pugmire and Simon Strantzas exhibit figures who reveal strikingly Lovecraftian elements while probing the psyche of the man from Providence." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Letters from an Old Gent by W. H. Pugmire (a set of prose poems in the form of letters from Lovecraft to his friends and family members, as well as to Edgar Poe and S.T. Joshi)
- Some Unknown Gulf of Night by W. H. Pugmire, chapter 16 (inspired by The Statement of Randolph Carter. Characters based on Lovecraft and his friends Loveman and Moe enter the underground place on a cemetery)
- Unhallowed Places by W. H. Pugmire (in the chapter VI the character based on Lovecraft comes across a horrible object in the Little Italy disctrict of Providence)
- Lovecraft's Sentence by Joe Pulver ("in which the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft, upset at fictional portrayals of himself, gets his revenge")
- A Gent. Of Providence by Dave Reeder
- Death in All Its Ripeness by Mark Samuels ("Mark Samuels focuses on Lovecraft’s creation of imaginary tomes of forbidden lore". His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Return of the Night-Gaunts by Darrell Schweitzer ("Darrell Schweitzer focuses on Lovecraft’s childhood, when he was plagued with dreams of “night-gaunts” and was left bereft by the early death of his father." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Feverish Stars by John Shirley ("John Shirley depicts Lovecraft as a gawky teenager evolving his notions of “cosmicism”." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- When Death Wakes Me To Myself by John Shirley ("a tale of a therapy patient slowly remembering a former incarnation when he was H.P. Lovecraft". Published in Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror.)
- Prologue by Angela Slatter ("a poignant narrative of Howard Lovecraft’s early life. She details his lonely existence in a house where fishy things are certainly happening, and a moment of tragic violence when he understands how his own family relates to the paranormal world. Published in The Lovecraft Squad)
- Balsamo's Mirror by L. Sprague de Camp (magical mirror transfers the minds of Lovecraft and his friend into the bodies of two British peasants in the XVIII century)
- Captured in Oils by Simon Strantzas ("While eschewing Lovecraft himself as a character, the tales by W. H. Pugmire and Simon Strantzas exhibit figures who reveal strikingly Lovecraftian elements while probing the psyche of the man from Providence." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Avenging Angela by Jonathan Thomas ("Lovecraft famously collaborated with Harry Houdini on a story. Donald Tyson and Jonathan Thomas write very different stories on the association of these two figures." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Tempting Providence by Jonathan Thomas ("We get a ghost of Lovecraft in “Tempting Providence” by Jonathan Thomas and a Lovecraft who lives into old age. <...> Justin, an up and coming photographer, is invited to have a showing of his work at his former alma mater in Providence. He’s the past. After all, he did see Lovecraft’s ghost once when he worked at the school as a security guard. Representing the future is Palazzo, a deceitful school administrator who invited Thomas to show there and then stiffed him on the promised travel reimbursements. From there, things get strange. Justin wanders into a Providence described in in ways reminiscent of Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark” and where the elderly Lovecraft holds court with his young admirers in a café." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)
- Witch’s Ladder by Donald Tyson ("Lovecraft famously collaborated with Harry Houdini on a story. Donald Tyson and Jonathan Thomas write very different stories on the association of these two figures." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- To Mars and Providence by Don Webb (a crossover with The War of the Worlds and the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft witnesses the arrival of Martians in 1898)
- The Man Who Collected Lovecraft by Philip Weber
- Dreams Are Forever by Scott Wiley ("Scott Wiley emphasises Lovecraft’s devotion to cats." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- From the Papers of Helmut Hecker by Chet Williamson. ("A cranky and unpleasant horror writer picks up a cat on a book tour in Providence, RI. I'm sure everyone here can figure out where this one goes. Shades of "The Thing on the Doorstep"...." Summary by mogora)
- HPL by Gahan Wilson (Lovecraft lives till 1990 by some strange means)
- The Gilman Woman by Stephen Woodworth ("Stephen Woodworth and Donald R. Burleson ring changes on the Lovecraftian theme of personality exchange." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Managansett Horror by Peter Worthy
- Shadow over R'lyeh by Peter Worthy
Bonus
- Act of Providence by Donald Grant ("The book commemorates Providence, RI as the host of the 1st World Fantasy Convention (1975). It includes a forgotten Lovecraft manuscript and a hidden underground Providence with sinsiter goings on.")
- I am Providence by Nick Mamatas (satirical murder mystery novel set on a fan convention. Doesn't have Lovecraft as a character but is about his fandom)
Some of materials used:
Lovecraft in Fiction https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/38471/
https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Lovecraft_as_a_character_in_fiction
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hp-lovecraft/4005-10641/issues-cover/
https://innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/lovecraft-the-character/
https://marzaat.wordpress.com/2020/08/20/black-wings-of-cthulhu/
Web Original
- Midnight Pals by bitterkarella (Twitter-based comedy fanfiction series about famous horror writers telling their stories as tales near the campfire)
- Ask Lovecraft by Leeman Kessler (impersonation show on Youtube where resurrected Lovecraft answers questions from the fans)
Webcomics
- The Unspeakable Vault (of Doom) by François Launet (a light-hearted webcomic about Great Old Ones; Lovecraft appears in some strips)
- Lovecraft is Missing by Larry Latham ("it is the autumn of 1926, and horror author H. P. Lovecraft is not where he's supposed to be. His friend-by-post and fellow writing enthusiast Orwin Battler has traveled from Oklahoma to see him; occult expert Father Jackey is after missing pages from a rare book most recently in Lovecraft's possession; University librarian Nan Mercy is after the book pages as well as personal revenge against Lovecraft's probable kidnappers.")
- Lovely Lovecraft by MalakiaLaGatta (a comic about child Lovecraft interacting with his characters in Arkham and Dreamlands)
- Young Lovecraft by José Oliver and Bartolo Torres ("each panel in this series imagines how Lovecraft’s childhood would have occurred had he been visited by the horrendous creatures that later appeared in his finest fiction")
Comic Books
- No Way Out in Ghostly Haunts #28, December 1972
- Lovers by Alex CF (one-off comic book about Lovecraft and Shub-Niggurath)
- R.H.B. by Andreas (Andreas Martens) and Rivière (François Rivière) (a bio-comic of R. H. Barlow)
- Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom by Bruce Brown and Renzo Podesta (child Lovecraft having adventures in a frozen world)
- Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom by Bruce Brown, Dwight L. MacPherson, Thomas Boatwright
- Howard Lovecraft and the Three Kingdoms by Bruce Brown, Thomas Boatwright, Renzo Podestá
- The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft by Mac Carter (focuses both on HPL fighting his own creations and his difficult writer career; Lovecraft's creatures come to life when he's asleep)
- Atomic Robo and the Shadow from Beyond Time by Brian Clevinger ("Atomic Robo has to fight a monster that sprang from the mind of HPL")
- Poe and Phillips by Jaime Collado and Miguel Cedillo (Poe and Lovecraft teaming up against an ancient emperor who wants to take over the world)
- Planetary by Warren Ellis (Lovecraft dissaproves of sea creature eggs)
- Some Notes on a Nonentity: The Life of H.P. Lovecraft by Sam Gafford, Jason C. Eckhardt (biographical graphic novel detailing Lovecraft's life from the beginning to the end)
- The Crossroads: A Lovecraftian comic board book by Terrance Grace and Silvio DB (Lovecraft in Red Hook "finds himself standing at water’s edge, face to face with Yog-Sothoth and his own internal abyss")
- H.P. Lovecraft 1890-1937 by George Kuchar (a grotesquely drawn biographical comic)
- Providence by Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows (main character meets many Lovecraft's characters and eventually the man himself; an unusual example where Lovecraft is unaware that the things he wrote about were real)
- Recognition by Alan Moore (a story about Lovecraft's father Winfield Scott Lovecraft)
- H. P. Lovecraft: He Who Wrote in the Darkness: A Graphic Novel by Alex Nikolavitch, Gervasio-Aon-Lee (biographical graphic novel about the last 12 years of Lovecraft's life)
- Necronauts by Gordon Rennie, Frazer Irving (H.P. Lovecraft, Harry Houdini, Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Fort battling evil forces)
- Lovecraft by Hans Rodionoff, Keith Giffen, Enrique Breccia (a particularly gruesome example of the "Lovecraft wrote about real things" trope; follows Lovecraft from childhood to the end of his relationship with Sonia)
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Ancient Gods by Ralph E. Vaughan, Earl Geier ("During a trip through New England, an aged Sherlock Holmes is asked to find a missing man. The trail leads to the home of American fantasy writer HP Lovecraft, who gives information that sends the eminently logical detective in a surprising direction.")
Movies and TV
- Supernatural, season 6, episode 21 "Let it Bleed"
- Howard Lovecraft and the Frozen Kingdom
- Howard Lovecraft and the Undersea Kingdom
- Howard Lovecraft and the Kingdom of Madness
- Murdoch Mysteries ("Set in the early 1900s, when Lovecraft was a young teenager, the episode imagined Lovecraft as a Goth youth spending a season with his Canadian aunt. In Toronto, he became something of an autistic necrophiliac (presumably in the manner of the story “The Loved Dead”) who had an obsession with a rotten corpse. The show also implied that he had the psychic power to project monstrous fantasies into women’s minds." Summary by Jason Colavito)
- Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (Lovecraft is a sort of an action hero who steals Necronomicon from cultists)
- Out of Mind: The Stories of HPL (HPL meets the descendant of Randolph Carter)
- La Sombra Prohibida ("included Lovecraft as a character. Though not directly based on Lovecraft’s stories, it draws from his universe to tell the story of a woman who travels to an old mansion in the Spanish countryside, the Valdemar House, where odd things have happened through the years.")
Audios
- Talk to Me: HP Lovecraft By Sara Davies and Abigail Youngman (a BBC radio drama about Lovecraft's marriage to Sonia Greene)
- The Lovecraft Invasion by Robert Valentine (Doctor Who audio from Big Finish. Doctor and companions enter Lovecraft's mind to fight a psychic invader)
Books
Plays
- Howard, mon amour by Martine Chifflot-Comazzi (23 phantasmagorical scenes from the marriage of Sonia Greene and H.P. Lovecraft)
- Monstrous Invisible by Stephen Near (set at the end of Lovecraft's life, explores his relationship with Sonia Greene)
- Night Gaunts: An Entertainment Based On The Life And Writings Of H.P. Lovecraft, With Additional Poetica Lovecraftiana by Brett Rutherford (a short play based on Lovecraft's biography)
Novels
- The Broken Hours by Jacqueline Baker (a ghost story about the last years of Lovecraft's life)
- Shadows Bend by David Barbour and Richard Raleigh (Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard fighting servants of the Old Ones on a road trip through Dust Bowl)
- The Lovecraft Chronicles by Peter H. Cannon (an alternate history novel where Lovecraft lives till 1960; written in the form of three fictional memoirs)
- Pulptime by Peter H. Cannon (a short mystery novel in which Lovecraft meets Sherlock Holmes. Set in New York, Frank Long also plays a large role)
- The Planet of Tasteless Pleasure by Harry Harrison (the fourth book in the Bill, the Galactic Hero series; contains a scene parodying Silverberg's novel with Lovecraft, Howard and Gilgamesh)
- The Assaults of Chaos by S. T. Joshi (a novel where young Lovecraft meets his not-actually-dead father, travels to England, meets famous weird fiction writers, romances an original female character and faces a "cosmic menace")
- Honeymoon in Jail: H. P. Lovecraft, Detective by S. T. Joshi (“my little detective novel featuring Lovecraft and Sonia as detectives")
- The Night Ocean by Paul La Farge (a scholar obsessed with Lovecraft and Barlow relationship goes off the deep end; the relationship is presented in the novel as a romance)
- Corvus Rex by J.H. Kimbrell
- Innswich Horror by Edward Lee (Lovecraft comes back to life as a zombie)
- Lucifer’s Lottery by Edward Lee (the main character meets Lovecraft who is a tour guide in hell)
- Pages Torn From a Travel Journal by Edward Lee (Lovecraft visits a seedy carnival while on a bus ride)
- Trolley 1852 by Edward Lee (Lovecraft is hired to write a porn novel; most of the story is the said novel)
- Lovecraft’s Book by Richard Lupoff (Lovecraft is hired by George Sylvester Viereck to write an American "Mein Kampf")
- Marblehead by Richard Lupoff (a longer version of Lovecraft’s Book. "Marblehead is a huge work, encompassing all of 1927, a year in which H.P. Lovecraft, researching a book he'd been hired to write for the Nazis, travels the East Coast in the company of Charles Sylvester Viereck.")
- The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont (Lovecraft is a murder victim whose death sets in motion the events of the book)
- Practical Demonkeeping by Christopher Moore (a secondary character based on Lovecraft runs a cafe)
- The Other Lovecraft by Kyle Paquet ("HPL as the creator of a world full of his imaginary creatures, who need his help.")
- The Secret Life of H.P. Lovecraft by W.J. Renehan ("This is not a book about the “Secret” life of H.P. Lovecraft, but more a monologue about how each one of the more famous stories that came from HPL’s fevered mind “could” have been inspired by a series of black envelopes." Description from Goodreads by Vincent Piazza)
- In the Lair of the Dreamer by Franlyn Searight (Lovecraft's ghost appears)
- The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Shea, Robert Anton Wilson (often alluded to and appears as a character, so do his aunt Annie Gamwell and the poet Hart Crane)
- Gilgamesh in the Outback by Robert Silverberg (Lovecraft and Robert Howard interact with Gilgamesh in hell)
- Pirate Utopia by Bruce Sterling, John Coulthart (Lovecraft makes a cameo as a publicity agent for Houdini)
- Equioid by Charles Stross (features a letter from Lovecraft about meeting the titular creature)
- The Lovecraft Coven by Donald Tyson ("Lovecraft wakes up in an insane asylum at Providence almost eighty years after his own death, trapped in the body of a man he never knew and hunted by shadow walkers determined to destroy him. His sole hope is to enter the fictional world he created for his short stories and find the Necronomicon, which has been stolen from Miskatonic University.")
- The Arcanum by Thomas Wheeler (Lovecraft is a member of the Arcanum secret society, together with Arthur Conan Doyle, Harry Houdini, Marie Laveau and others)
- Der Hexer von Salem by Wolfgang Hohlbein (The Hexer from Salem)
- Посмотри в глаза чудовищ by Андрей Лазарчук, Михаил Успенский (Look at the Eyes of Monsters by Andrei Lazarchuk and Mikhail Uspenski; cryptohistoric novel about the Russian poet Nikolai Gumilev, has a cameo of Lovecraft)
Short Stories
- The Invention of H. P. Lovecraft by S. K. Azoulay ("suggests that Lovecraft was a fictional creation invented by Jorge Luis Borges". Flapperhouse Magazine, Fall 2016)
- Shadow of the Immortal by Charles L. Baker (published in Eldritch Tales #11 1985, #13, #14 1987)
- Christmas with Uncle Lovecraft by Bruce J. Balfour (Crypt of Cthulhu 52, Yuletide 1987)
- Fine Bindings by R. H. Barlow (a story about characters who seem to be partially based on Lovecraft and his mother)
- The Dark Demon by Robert Bloch ("Bloch creates a character that is obviously HPL in Edgar Henquist Gordon. The man is tall and pale, writes horror stories for small magazines and is a bit of a recluse, though he has hundreds of correspondents." First published in Weird Tales, November 1936)
- Shambler From the Stars by Robert Bloch (narrator's friend whom he asks to translate De Vermis Mysteriis from Latin is based on Lovecraft)
- Shadow From the Steeple by Robert Bloch (Lovecraft is one of the people investigating the death of Robert Blake)
- The Suicide in the Study by Robert Bloch (as Luveh-Keraph, high priest of Bast in Ancient Egypt)
- The Ultimate Ultimatum by Robert Bloch (Lovecraft is present among other horror writers in a large convention of writers and fans held in a large crypt)
- The Exiles by Ray Bradbury (Lovecraft appears among other horror writers in the unedited version, sitting near the chimney and eating ice-cream)
- Persistence of Memory by Jason V Brock ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Worlds Apart by Donald R. Burleson ("Stephen Woodworth and Donald R. Burleson ring changes on the Lovecraftian theme of personality exchange." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Correspondence of Cameron Thaddeus Nash by Ramsey Campbell ("Presented as the letters of a little-known writer, annotated by Campbell, this is not only a commentary on Lovecraft but pathological fan psychology and concludes with hints of genuine otherworldly horror. These are Nash’s letters to Lovecraft between 1925 to 1937. Nash starts out as a fawning fan but gradually becomes more abusive." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)
- Asceticism and Lust: The Greatest Lovecraft Revision by Peter H. Cannon ("HPL revising a piece titled "Tropic of Cthulhu" with Henry Miller... written as a scholarly article bringing to light a previously-unknown Lovecraft revision." From Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft and Other Essays.)
- The Madness Out of Space by Peter H. Cannon (a somewhat humorous Mythos story where a character heavily based on HPL meets Nyarlathotep. Published in Forever Azathoth: Parodies and Pastiches)
- The Lurker in the Shadows by Nathan Carson (Lovecraft lives till 1970s and strikes up a correspondence with Stephen King. Published in Cthulhu Fhtagn!)
- Weird Tales by Fred Chappell (Lovecraft meeting Hart Crane)
- Masters of Terror by Laurence Cornford ("a DOCTOR WHO story which features HPL meeting up with the renegade Time Lord known as the Master, to battle a cache of lizard-man Silurians hidden deep in the swamps of Chepachet, Rhode Island . . . and based on HPL's own experiences venturing in those very environs, alongside C. M. Eddy, Jr")
- The Volume Out of Print by Jim Cort
- Titanic: QED by Catt Dahman
- Correlated Discontents by Rick Dakan ("The grad student of “Correlated Discontents” is helping develop an intelligent software assistant which will work with natural language to make context-appropriate responses. During a beta demonstration fielding audience questions at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival, things begin to go wrong. The student finds himself identifying more and more with a Lovecraft simulacrum and seeing him as the answer to some of his social inadequacies." Published in Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror. Summary by Randy Stafford)
- The Lamp of Alhazred by August Derleth (Derleth's tribute to HPL and to his imagination)
- Return to Providence by George C. Diezell, II
- Howard Lovecraft and the Terror from Beyond by Robert M. Eber
- Howard Lovecraft and . . . by Eldon K, Everett
- Alice at R’lyeh by Murray Ewing ("Alice meets Howard Phillips Lovecraft in the nightmare corpse-city of R’lyeh, and there they discuss nonsense & meaninglessness, until interrupted by... Certain Entities of an Unusual Nature... Bringing together the imaginative worlds of H P Lovecraft and Lewis Carroll, Alice at R’lyeh explores the black seas of infinity, the dangers of adding two and two, and the advantages of being fictional.")
- Lovecrafting by Orrin Grey (published in Letters to Lovecraft)
- Tales of the Lovecraft Collectors By Kenneth Faig, Jr. ("In the first two tales Faig sets up elaborate locales and suitably Lovecraftian characters who hint darkly that HPL's recurring themes of undying evil and secret cults may have been based on more than just fantasy. The second also tries, oddly, to draw a link between Lovecraft's cults and the pagan underpinnings of the Nazis. The third tale examines whether or not the inspiration for HPL's 'Nyarlathotep' character was an obscure Victorian African American magician.")
- Passing Spirits by Sam Gafford ("Lovecraft is a ghost. Or, maybe, something of an incarnation of his fiction. Or maybe he’s just the hallucination of the narrator who is dying of brain cancer while he continues to work at a bookstore. He’s not going to be getting medical treatment because he can’t afford it. Lovecraft, only visible to the narrator, makes wry comments on the narrator’s life and recommends stoicism to the dying man." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)
- Midnight in Providence by Charles Garofalo
- How Could It Be Elsewise? by Richard Gavin ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Basilisk by David Hambling ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Old Letters by Phillip C. Heath
- Susie by Jason Van Hollander (story about the last days of Lovecraft's mother, implies that "she has long been in contact with something monstrous from outside our world and that it impregnated her and expected to use Lovecraft to usher in “the Dawn of a Thousand Young”." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)
- A Meeting Beneath the Moon by Mark Howard Jones (His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- A Gentleman of Providence Pens a Letter by Ben P. Indick
- In His Own Handwriting by S. T. Joshi ("the stories by Richard Gavin, David Hambling, Jason V. Brock, and S. T. Joshi supply broader ruminations on the origins of Lovecraft’s revolutionary motifs." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Glimmer in the Darkness by Asamatsu Ken ("a combination of Lovecraft and the UFO phenomenon." Published in Letters to Lovecraft)
- The Black Druid by Frank Belknap Long (character based on Lovecraft confronts the representation of his anxieties)
- The Space Eaters by Frank Belknap Long (narrator's friend Howard is a horror writer who's having difficulties with his new story)
- Turn out the Light by Penelope Love (a story focusing on Lovecraft's mother Sarah Susan Lovecraft)
- Brattleboro Days, Yuggoth Nights by Nick Mamatas (Lovecraft and his Vermont acquaintance Arthur Goodenough discuss Whisperer in the Darkness in microscopic text on a postcard)
- The Dude Who Collected Lovecraft by Nick Mamatas and Tim Pratt ("tells of a mixed-race young man (part African American) named Jim Payne whose great-grandfather, Cavanaugh Payne, corresponded with Lovecraft")
- Jitterbuggin’ by Nick Mamatas (a letter from Lovecraft to Jack Kerouac)
- Falco Ossifracus by Edith Miniter (an early parody of Lovecraft's writings and personality)
- Lovecraft in Heaven by Grant Morrison (a psychedelic story about Lovecraft's last days)
- Night-Gaunts by Joyce Carol Oates (about characters based on Lovecraft's family; a sort of "what if" where his father gets institutionalized a bit later in life)
- The Armies of the Night by Reggie Oliver ("These stories feature Lovecraft as a character and describe his time working with J. Edger Hoover to assist the HPL." Published in The Lovecraft Squad)
- Ec’h-pi-el by Reggie Oliver ("These stories feature Lovecraft as a character and describe his time working with J. Edger Hoover to assist the HPL." Published in The Lovecraft Squad)
- A Gentleman of Darkness by W.H. Pugmire ("While eschewing Lovecraft himself as a character, the tales by W. H. Pugmire and Simon Strantzas exhibit figures who reveal strikingly Lovecraftian elements while probing the psyche of the man from Providence." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Letters from an Old Gent by W. H. Pugmire (a set of prose poems in the form of letters from Lovecraft to his friends and family members, as well as to Edgar Poe and S.T. Joshi)
- Some Unknown Gulf of Night by W. H. Pugmire, chapter 16 (inspired by The Statement of Randolph Carter. Characters based on Lovecraft and his friends Loveman and Moe enter the underground place on a cemetery)
- Unhallowed Places by W. H. Pugmire (in the chapter VI the character based on Lovecraft comes across a horrible object in the Little Italy disctrict of Providence)
- Lovecraft's Sentence by Joe Pulver ("in which the spirit of H.P. Lovecraft, upset at fictional portrayals of himself, gets his revenge")
- A Gent. Of Providence by Dave Reeder
- Death in All Its Ripeness by Mark Samuels ("Mark Samuels focuses on Lovecraft’s creation of imaginary tomes of forbidden lore". His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Return of the Night-Gaunts by Darrell Schweitzer ("Darrell Schweitzer focuses on Lovecraft’s childhood, when he was plagued with dreams of “night-gaunts” and was left bereft by the early death of his father." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Feverish Stars by John Shirley ("John Shirley depicts Lovecraft as a gawky teenager evolving his notions of “cosmicism”." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- When Death Wakes Me To Myself by John Shirley ("a tale of a therapy patient slowly remembering a former incarnation when he was H.P. Lovecraft". Published in Black Wings II: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror.)
- Prologue by Angela Slatter ("a poignant narrative of Howard Lovecraft’s early life. She details his lonely existence in a house where fishy things are certainly happening, and a moment of tragic violence when he understands how his own family relates to the paranormal world. Published in The Lovecraft Squad)
- Balsamo's Mirror by L. Sprague de Camp (magical mirror transfers the minds of Lovecraft and his friend into the bodies of two British peasants in the XVIII century)
- Captured in Oils by Simon Strantzas ("While eschewing Lovecraft himself as a character, the tales by W. H. Pugmire and Simon Strantzas exhibit figures who reveal strikingly Lovecraftian elements while probing the psyche of the man from Providence." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Avenging Angela by Jonathan Thomas ("Lovecraft famously collaborated with Harry Houdini on a story. Donald Tyson and Jonathan Thomas write very different stories on the association of these two figures." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- Tempting Providence by Jonathan Thomas ("We get a ghost of Lovecraft in “Tempting Providence” by Jonathan Thomas and a Lovecraft who lives into old age. <...> Justin, an up and coming photographer, is invited to have a showing of his work at his former alma mater in Providence. He’s the past. After all, he did see Lovecraft’s ghost once when he worked at the school as a security guard. Representing the future is Palazzo, a deceitful school administrator who invited Thomas to show there and then stiffed him on the promised travel reimbursements. From there, things get strange. Justin wanders into a Providence described in in ways reminiscent of Lovecraft’s “The Haunter of the Dark” and where the elderly Lovecraft holds court with his young admirers in a café." Published in Black Wings of Cthulhu)
- Witch’s Ladder by Donald Tyson ("Lovecraft famously collaborated with Harry Houdini on a story. Donald Tyson and Jonathan Thomas write very different stories on the association of these two figures." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- To Mars and Providence by Don Webb (a crossover with The War of the Worlds and the Cthulhu Mythos. Lovecraft witnesses the arrival of Martians in 1898)
- The Man Who Collected Lovecraft by Philip Weber
- Dreams Are Forever by Scott Wiley ("Scott Wiley emphasises Lovecraft’s devotion to cats." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- From the Papers of Helmut Hecker by Chet Williamson. ("A cranky and unpleasant horror writer picks up a cat on a book tour in Providence, RI. I'm sure everyone here can figure out where this one goes. Shades of "The Thing on the Doorstep"...." Summary by mogora)
- HPL by Gahan Wilson (Lovecraft lives till 1990 by some strange means)
- The Gilman Woman by Stephen Woodworth ("Stephen Woodworth and Donald R. Burleson ring changes on the Lovecraftian theme of personality exchange." His Own Most Fantastic Creation anthology)
- The Managansett Horror by Peter Worthy
- Shadow over R'lyeh by Peter Worthy
Bonus
- Act of Providence by Donald Grant ("The book commemorates Providence, RI as the host of the 1st World Fantasy Convention (1975). It includes a forgotten Lovecraft manuscript and a hidden underground Providence with sinsiter goings on.")
- I am Providence by Nick Mamatas (satirical murder mystery novel set on a fan convention. Doesn't have Lovecraft as a character but is about his fandom)
Some of materials used:
Lovecraft in Fiction https://www.sffchronicles.com/threads/38471/
https://ultimatepopculture.fandom.com/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Lovecraft_as_a_character_in_fiction
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/hp-lovecraft/4005-10641/issues-cover/
https://innsmouthfreepress.com/blog/lovecraft-the-character/
https://marzaat.wordpress.com/2020/08/20/black-wings-of-cthulhu/
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Date: 2021-06-06 03:44 pm (UTC)http://www.listenersguide.org.uk/bbc/podcast/?p=p06spb8w
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Date: 2021-06-06 09:18 pm (UTC)Well, "the things Lovecraft wrote about were real!" is probably the most popular type of story with him as a character, and also my least favorite one. So RPF writers are not exactly afraid of these dilemmas, even if it usually means they steamroll them.
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Date: 2021-06-09 12:55 am (UTC)What I meant was that it is, in retrospect, perhaps slightly odd that apparently nobody in this supposedly modern-day setting has ever heard of Lovecraft or his work -- it's not so much that the things he wrote about are real, or at least that some of them may be, but that Lovecraft himself seemingly doesn't exist and/or never wrote his books. The characters do all this research into snippets of supposed folklore and obscure journals, but nobody ever says "Dagon? Hmm, there was a chap who wrote a story by that title back in 1917, but it was dismissed as science fiction. I wonder if he was onto something?" ;-D
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Date: 2021-06-09 04:55 pm (UTC)...Almost everything about it sounds very not like Lovecraft's stories. :D Except the descent underground and, I guess, cultists (who still appear much more often in Lovecraft-inspired works). I does sound like countless pastiches and adaptations, though.
Lovecraft's works are in public domain and can be found online, if you ever get interested. ;)
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Date: 2021-06-09 05:11 pm (UTC)Oh, I've read a few from the library (and consumed an entire book of
--not very good-- Holmes/Lovecraft crossover stories recently, if you
recall: Shadows Over Baker Street).
But it's a fairly casual acquaintance; enough to pick up on the tropes, but certainly not enough to write fanfic, for instance, or to have any interest in doing so. (Mind you, I know Sherlock Holmes much better, and wouldn't consider writing fanfic for that either!)