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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

She may be the state’s most popular living politician, said Amy Lovecraft, a political science professor at the University of Alaska in Fairbanks.

From Los Angeles Times Apr. 18, 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

Lovecraft came from pure-blood stock, and he is the last male descendant of that family in the United States.

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

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