These are his hastily scrawled notes he managed to write down before casting himself from his hospital window, for he just can't bear to live with the long lost secrets of ancient seafaring creatures and intelligent entities that lurk below the water's surface.ĭagon, despite being one of Lovecraft's earliest stories feels on par with his later masterpieces such as The Shadow Over Innsmouth and At the Mountains of Madness, just not nearly as stretched out. The final confession of a morphine addicted marine merchant who experienced something so terrifying during a sea voyage in World War I that it shattered his sanity. He is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism and Christianity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction.
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