Although the remains that they find are initially mistaken to be those of a prehistoric human society, it is ultimately ...

H.P. Lovecraft is known as the father of the Cosmic Horror genre of fiction. The creator of Cthulhu and many other terrifying dark gods in his novels paints a bleak and decaying view of our world and ...

But the genre that has taken to Lovecraft most fervently is those long-haired lovers of heavy metal and its various offshoots. Rock titans Metallica recorded two tracks with H.P. related titles ...

One suggested that the show’s creators might have been alluding to the fact that H.P. Lovecraft, the early-20th-century horror writer whose oeuvre inspired the book and show, was virulently anti ...

Egypt’s Coptic Christians Deserve Our Attention — and Our Help Lillie Bliss, MoMA’s Unheralded Founder, Gets a Close Look A man said to the universe: “Sir, I exist!” “However,” repli ...

A history professor tracing his family tree visits the seaside town of Innsmouth, on the North Yorkshire coast. While there he becomes caught up in disturbing events that lead to horrifying ...

Cosmic horror was built on stories of the impossible eternity that is the cosmos, with writers and filmmakers refining this ...

Abstract.--This article explores the significance of higher-dimensional and Non-Euclidean geometries in the weird horror fiction of H.P. Lovecraft, particularly in “The Dreams in the Witch House” ...

Clifford Martin Eddy Jr. was born on January 18, 1896 in Providence, RI. He was a well known horror writer for many years and a contemporary of H.P. Lovecraft. Eddy grew up in Providence and attended ...

The building on New York's East Side that used to house Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital has inspired tales of horror from the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and served as the model for Arkham Asylum in ...