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Lovecraft

American  
[luhv-kraft, -krahft] / ˈlʌvˌkræft, -ˌkrɑft /

noun

  1. H(oward) P(hillips), 1890–1937, U.S. horror-story writer.


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Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard and similar authors in durable hardcovers.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 21, 2025

In TV and movies, there are the racist horrors of Lovecraft Country and the moral monstrosity of the body-snatching colonizers in Get Out.

From Slate Oct. 28, 2024

He was also a talented artist who loved painting with his kids, and a voracious reader fond of the speculative science fiction of Philip K. Dick and the eldritch tales of H. P. Lovecraft.

From Science Magazine May 15, 2024

Through his work, especially roles like "Lovecraft Country," he redefined what it was to be a leading Black man in this seemingly post-racial era of Hollywood.

From Salon Dec. 20, 2023

"Treasure Trove," by Henry Cleveland Wood, is a pleasant and urbane bit of light verse; while "Percival Lowell," by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, is an abominably dull elegiac piece of heavy verse.

From Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 by Lovecraft, H. P. (Howard Phillips)

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