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The dizzying speed of progress of his time was compounded by an expansion of the unknown. Each new development, instead of reducing the number of questions as had been expected by pre-modern philosophers, instead compounded them exponentially. Leibniz had hoped that the entire world could be described by reason, and that this is the best of all possible worlds—a possibility utterly abolished during Lovecraft's writing period. Each new discovery only increased humanity's knowledge of its own ignorance and [[Insignificant Little Blue Planet|insignificance]], encouraging a nihilistic atmosphere, and this is perhaps the central theme of Lovecraft's incisive fiction. For fiction done by others in his literary mythos (and the Lovecraftian setting as a whole) see the [[Cthulhu Mythos]].
Despite [[wikipedia:H. P. Lovecraft#Copyright and other legal issues|some controversy]] over whether most of his works are genuinely public domain, they're all invariably available online [http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:H._P._Lovecraft somewhere]. The letters are harder to get ahold of (and expensive as hell, check out Abebooks), but they're well worth the search.
The stories for which he is remembered include:
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