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{{quote| ''"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."''}}
 
{{quote|''"...all my tales are based on the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large."''|'''H. P. Lovecraft'''}}
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* [[Apocalyptic Log]]: Many of his stories are either an [[Apocalyptic Log]] wrapped up in a [[Framing Device]], or just a straight [[Apocalyptic Log]].
* [[Arc Words]]:
{{quote| ''That is not dead which can eternal lie,''<br />
''And with strange aeons even death may die.'' }}
* [[Author Avatar]]: Abdul Alhazred, Wilbur Whateley, Edward Derby, and Randolph Carter particularly, although most of his protagonists were somewhat autobiographical.
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* [[Time Travel]]: a method made even more disturbing by its hypothetical possibility.
* [[To Create a Playground For Evil]]: The cult in "The Call of Cthulhu" seems to have aspects of this:
{{quote| Then mankind would have become as the Great Old Ones; free and wild and beyond good and evil, with laws and morals thrown aside and all men shouting and killing and revelling in joy. Then the liberated Old Ones would teach them new ways to shout and kill and revel and enjoy themselves, and all the earth would flame with a holocaust of ecstasy and freedom.}}
* [[Tomato in the Mirror]]
* [[Tome of Eldritch Lore]]: The Necronomicon, trope popularizer.
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