Tuesday, April 19, 2016

P is for hPlovecraft

      PULP FICTION
         late 1800’s – mid 1950’s


Howard Phillips Lovecraft 1890 –1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. 
During his life he was virtually unknown and was only published in Pulp Magazines such as Weird Tales.

Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46.
 

Lovecraft is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors in his genre—horror.









Lovecraft is mentioned at the bottom
“The Call of Cthulhu" is a short story by Lovecraft. Written in the summer of 1926, it was first published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales, in February 1928. Wikipedia








The Cthulhu Mythos is a shared fictional universe based on the work of Lovecraft.  Authors of Lovecraftian horror use the elements of Mythos in an ongoing expansion of the fictional universe. 


Drawing by Lovecraft of the Cthulhu.





"Dagon" is a short story by H. P. Lovecraft, written in July 1917, one of the first stories he wrote as an adult. It was first published in the November 1919 edition of The Vagrant. Wikipedia










The Case of Charles Dexter Ward is a short novel by H. P. Lovecraft, written in early 1927, but not published during the author's lifetime. Wikipedia




"The Dunwich Horror" is a short story by Lovecraft written in 1928 and first published in the April 1929 issue of Weird Tales. It takes place in Dunwich, a fictional town in Massachusetts. Wikipedia










The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. – Lovecraft










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This one is just Plain and horribly disgusting!
















Always, 
Em-Musing

8 comments:

Alex J. Cavanaugh said...

Shame he never found success while he was alive. He's one of the horror masters.

Liz Brownlee said...

Wow, I wonder what he would have gone on to do if he hadn't died so young. What a shame.

Ella said...

He was so talented! This happens a lot to creative types-so, sad~

Adam said...

That last cover might of been during her time of the month

certainly gross.

The Brown Recluse (TBR) said...

As a young adult, I went through a phase of loving horror...mostly movies...but now, I don't like horror at all. I guess there's just too much horror in real life.
~Margaret

Deniz Bevan said...

I haven't read enough Lovecraft. I do like Chu-bu and Sheemish!

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