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The 16 pages that link to H. P. Lovecraft, each with the reason it gives.

• Edgar Allan PoeRelated: Lovecraft treated Poe as a major predecessor in the development of modern horror.

• Pulp magazineRelated: Weird Tales published much of the fiction that established his literary reputation.

• Body horrorRelated: His fiction helped establish bodily mutation as evidence of contact with inhuman powers.

• Cosmic horrorBroader topic: His stories and essays codified the genre’s characteristic scale, tone, and mythology.

• Weird fictionRelated: Lovecraft gave cosmic indifference a lasting place in the genre’s vocabulary and conventions.

• Stephen KingCompared with: Lovecraft’s distant cosmic terror contrasts with King’s focus on intimate relationships and everyday communities.

• Cthulhu MythosRelated: His stories supplied the mythology’s foundational entities, atmosphere, and fictional history.

• CosmicismRelated: His stories and essays give cosmicism its best-known literary expression.

• Robert E. HowardRelated: His correspondence with Howard connected two major writers of weird fiction.

• The Call of CthulhuRelated: Lovecraft wrote the story and connected it to his recurring mythos.

• Lord DunsanyRelated: Lovecraft credited Dunsany as a major influence on his early dream-cycle stories.

• Lovecraftian horrorBroader topic: His stories gave the style its best-known fictional universe and characteristic voice.

• CthulhuRelated: Lovecraft created Cthulhu and framed it as a force beyond human understanding.

• H. R. GigerRelated: Lovecraft’s Necronomicon inspired the title and atmosphere of Giger’s Necronom paintings.

• Junji ItoRelated: Ito has cited Lovecraft as an influence on his treatment of vast, incomprehensible horror.

• S. T. JoshiRelated: Joshi’s biographies, editions, and criticism made Lovecraft the central subject of his scholarship.