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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

He was even nominated for an Emmy for his performance in the now-canceled HBO show "Lovecraft Country."

From Salon Dec. 20, 2023

Mr. Lovecraft contends that it gives him pleasure to write as the Augustans did, and that those who do not relish his excursions into classic fields need not follow him.

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

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