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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

Too bad the weak body-swapping farce she’s given to play isn’t worthy of her gameness, a missed opportunity to fuse Lovecraft, Blake Edwards and Paul Verhoeven.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 27, 2023

Howard Phillips Lovecraft has an interesting history, and this fact was known to Official Editor Daas when he asked me to take a little journey to the study-home of the Vice-President.

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

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