H.P. Lovecraft: Difference between revisions

* And most terrifyingly of all, ''[http://www.psy-q.ch/lovecraft/html/catsdogs.htm Cats and Dogs]'', an essay on [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|why cats are better than dogs.]]

** Well, aren't they? "''You'' threw the stick, you can get it yourself!"

 

For a mostly-complete list of film adaptations, see [[Lovecraft on Film]]. For the comic book about Lovecraft, see ''[[Lovecraft (comics)|Lovecraft]]''.

* [[Author Avatar]]: Abdul Alhazred, Wilbur Whateley, Edward Derby, and Randolph Carter particularly, although most of his protagonists were somewhat autobiographical.

* [[Author Phobia]]: Much of what Lovecraft wrote was motivated by his own nightmares and personal phobias. Among the ones less likely to evoke similar feelings in readers nowadays were his fears of [[Values Dissonance|non-white Anglo-Saxon people and miscegenation.]] [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And fish.]]

* [[Badass Bookworm]]: The three professors in ''[[The Dunwich Horror]]''.

* [[Badass Normal]]: A strange non-human example. The [[Starfish Aliens|Elder Things]], despite being ordinary carbon-based lifeforms instead of being made of extradimensional exotic matter like most of the gibbering horrors of the Cthulhuverse, actually managed to win a stand up fight against the big green himself.

* [[For the Evulz]]: Nyarlathotep, one of the few [[Eldritch Abomination]]s who seems to take active interest in humanity, seems to love messing with people just because he can. Although in some stories he is simply the guardian of hidden lore, in ''The Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath,'' he's intentionally cruel. In the prose poem "Nyarlathotep," he tours the country driving people insane with scientific exhibitions. His purpose is never clear. In general, he's so powerful that his cruel actions are analogous to a child burning ants with a magnifying glass.

* [[Fish People]]: The Deep Ones.

* [[Half-Human Hybrid]]: ''[[The Shadow Over Innsmouth]]'', and others.

* [[He Also Did]]: Most of his fans would be surprised to learn Lovecraft tossed off a few light comedic pieces, including parodies of [[Horatio Alger, Jr.|Horatio Alger-type stories]] and heavy-handed anti-drinking screeds.

* [[Troll]]: When he found a student mistaking the abbreviation "ibid." for the name of some famous ancient Roman Lovecraft found this so funny that he went and wrote a whole story about Ibid just to mock the student.

* [[Turned Against Their Masters]]: {{spoiler|The shoggoths in "At the Mountains of Madness", and the reanimated corpses (if the men that created them could be called "masters") in "Herbert West - Reanimator"}}.

* [[Tropes Are Not Bad]]: Lovecraft turns [[Purple Prose]] into an art form.

* [[Uncanny Valley]]: Used extensively [[In-Universe]]. If the antagonists are human, expect the protagonist to described them as "strange".