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Sunand Tryambak Joshi (b. 22 June 1958 in Pune, India) is an Indian American literary scholar, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors. Besides what some critics consider to be the definitive biography of Lovecraft ("HP Lovecraft: A Life", 1996), Joshi has written about Ambrose Bierce, H. L. Mencken, Lord Dunsany, and M.R. James, and has edited collections of their works. - Stuart Gordon
Stuart Gordon (born August 11, 1947) in Chicago, Illinois) is a director, writer and producer of films and plays. Most of Gordon's film work is in the horror genre, though he has also ventured into science fiction. Like his friend and fellow filmmaker Brian Yuzna, Gordon is a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft and has adapted several Lovecraft stories for the screen. They include Re-Animator, From Beyond, Castle Freak (from The Outsider), and Dagon, … - China Miéville
China Tom Miéville is a British "fantastic fiction" writer. He is fond of describing his work as "weird fiction" (after early 20th century pulp and horror writers such as H.P. Lovecraft), and belongs to a loose group of writers sometimes called New Weird who consciously attempt to move fantasy away from commercial, genre clichés of Tolkien epigons. He is also active in left-wing politics as a member of the Socialist Workers Party. - Brian Yuzna
Brian Yuzna is a director, writer and producer of films. Yuzna grew up in Nicaragua, Puerto Rico and Panama before moving to the United States in the 1960s. Most of Yuzna's film work is in the horror genre, though he has also ventured into science fiction. Like his friend and fellow filmmaker Stuart Gordon, Yuzna is a big fan of H.P. Lovecraft and has adapted several Lovecraft stories for the screen. - Richard Corben
Richard Corben (born October 1 1940) is an American comic book artist best known for his illustrated fantasy stories in "Heavy Metal" (HM) magazine. He was born on a farm in Anderson, Missouri. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Kansas City Art Institute, in 1965. After a short stint as a professional animator, Corben started doing underground comics in 1970, when he started illustrating horror comics for Warren Publishing. - Sandy Petersen
Carl Sanford Joslyn Petersen (born September 16, 1955) is a game designer. Petersen was born in St. Louis, Missouri and attended University of California, Berkeley, majoring in zoology. He is a well-known fan of H.P. Lovecraft, whose work he first encountered in a World War II Armed Services edition of "The Dunwich Horror and other Weird Tales" found in his father's library. In 1974, "Dungeons & Dragons" brought his interest to role-playing games. - Hideyuki Kikuchi
A Japanese author famous for his horror novels, Hideyuki Kikuchi has been compared to both Stephen King and H.P. Lovecraft. Hideyuki Kikuchi was born in Chiba, Japan in 1949. He attended Aoyama Gakuin University. He was trained as a writer by famed author Kazuo Koike. Kikuchi wrote his first novel, Demon City Shinjuku in 1982 and has written numerous horror novels in the past 20 years, including 17 novels about Vampire Hunter D. He also wrote Darkside Blues and Wicked City. - R. H. Barlow
Robert Hayward Barlow was an American author, anthropologist and historian of early Mexico, and expert in the Nahuatl language. Barlow had been a friend of writers H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard since he was 13. He collaborated with Lovecraft on several stories, and after Lovecraft died, Barlow became his literary executor. In 1950 he published "Mexihkatl itonalama" ("The Mexican's calendar"), a Nahuatl-language newspaper. - Zealia Bishop
Zealia Brown-Reed Bishop was an American writer of short stories. Her stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales. However, they were extensively revised by H.P. Lovecraft to the point of being ghostwritten. Her name is sometimes spelt 'Zelia'. - Farnsworth Wright
Farnsworth Wright (1888-1940) was the editor of the pulp magazine "Weird Tales" during the magazine's heyday. Wright, a veteran of World War I, was working as a music critic for the "Chicago Herald and Examiner" when he began his association with "Weird Tales", founded in 1923. At first serving as chief manuscript reader, he replaced founding editor Edwin Baird in 1924 when the latter was fired by publisher J. C. Henneberger. - Peter Cannon
Peter H. Cannon (b. 1951 in California) is an H. P. Lovecraft scholar and an author of Cthulhu Mythos fiction. Cannon's writings on Lovecraft include "The Chronology Out of Time: Dates in the Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft" and "Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft". He edited "Lovecraft Remembered", a collection of reminiscences by friends and acquaintances of Lovecraft, and co-edited "More Annotated Lovecraft" with S. T. Joshi. - Joseph A. Citro
Joseph A. Citro is a Vermont author and folklorist. Occasionally referred as the "Bard of the Bizarre" or "the Ghost-Master General", he has extensively researched and documented the folklore, hauntings, ghost stories, paranormal activity and occult happenings of New England. Interested in horror since he was child, especially the works of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, Citro began his writing career by authoring several horror novels, including "The Gore", … - Andrew Migliore
Andrew John Migliore (b. 1966 in Washington D.C., United States) is the founder and director of the annual H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival (three days over the first full weekend of October) and Zompire: The Undead Film Festival in Portland Oregon. In 2006 he also began a spin-off, two-day version of the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival held each August in Austin, Texas. - Daniel Haller
Daniel Haller (born 1926 in Glendale, California) is an American film and television director, production designer, and art director. In 1953, Haller started as an art director in television, then quickly graduated to low budget feature films. Among many other credits, Haller designed the deceptively opulent sets for nearly all of Roger Corman's critically acclaimed Edgar Allan Poe film series, … - Edwin Baird
Edwin Baird (1886-1957) was the first editor of "Weird Tales", the pioneering pulp magazine that specialized in horror fiction. Baird, hired by "Weird Tales" publisher J. C. Henneberger, put out the magazine's premiere issue, dated March 1923. Over the course of the next year, Baird published some of the magazine's most famous writers, including H. P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, and Seabury Quinn. - Michael Shea
Michael Shea (1943-) is an American fantasy author living in California. His works include "Nifft the Lean" (1982) (winner of the World Fantasy Award) and "The Mines of Behemoth" (1997) (later republished together as "The Incomplete Nifft", 2000), as well as "The A'Rak" (2000) and "In Yana, the Touch of Undying" (1985). The Nifft stories, examples of the "sword-and-sorcery" genre modeled on Jack Vance, … - Richard L. Tierney
Richard L. Tierney (born 1936) is an American writer and poet. Tierney, a scholar of H.P. Lovecraft has written Cthulhu Mythos novels and is the coauthor (with David C. Smith) of a series of Red Sonja novels. - Stephen Hickman
Stephen Hickman (born April 9, 1949) is an award-winning American artist, illustrator, sculptor and author. He is best known for his work in science fiction and fantasy with over 350 book and magazine covers to his credit. His efforts have brought an extra dimension to the stories of Robert A. Heinlein, H.P. Lovecraft, Anne McCaffery, and Andre Norton. - Dave Michaels
Dave Michaels (b. Dave Miotke, December 15 1944, Chicago, Illinois) is a keyboard player and singer, best known as co-founder of the '60s acid-rock band, H.P. Lovecraft. He appeared on both of the band's albums but left in September 1968 to return to college. He currently performs in the San Francisco area as Dave Miotke. - Victoria Francés
Victoria Francés is a Spanish illustrator, born in Valencia. She is a graduate of the "Facultad de Bellas Artes de San Carlos" at the Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain. Her work is very goth-inspired: ghostly women in long dresses are perhaps the most common characters found in her art. Unsurprisingly, she cites her influences as Edgar Allan Poe, Anne Rice and H.P. Lovecraft. She also claims to have been influenced by the art of Luis Royo and Brom. - Jerry McGeorge
Jerry McGeorge (born October 22, 1945 in Cincinnati, Ohio) came to prominence in late 1965 as a guitarist with the legendary Chicago rock band, The Shadows of Knight. He later joined acid-rock band H.P. Lovecraft on bass in the summer of 1967, appearing on their debut album. McGeorge began playing guitar in 1961. His early guitar influences were Scotty Moore, James Burton, Chet Atkins, Charlie Byrd, Les Paul and the Brazilian Bossa Nova artist, Laurindo Almeida. - Samurai Cat
Samurai Cat (aka Miaowara Tomokato) is the main character in a series of books by Mark E. Rogers. In addition to the detailed writing, almost every page in each book has a picture painted by Rogers, depicting the events described on that page. Each chapter is a bizarre parody of some historical or pop culture event, but it is always treated as entirely serious. For example, no one finds it at all unusual that Tomokato is a walking, talking, … - Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Born in Providence, Lovecraft was a sickly child whose parents died insane. When he was 16, he wrote the astronomy column in the Providence Tribune. Between 1908 and 1923, he wrote short stories for Weird Tales magazine, among others. He died in Providence, in poverty, on March 15, 1937. His most famous novel is considered to be "At the Mountains of Madness," about an expedition to the South Pole, which discovers strange creatures beneath a mountain. - Kam Lee
Kam Lee is an American singer. He is best known for his vocal contributions to an early incarnation of Death (called Mantas) in 1983–84, and later joined Massacre in 1985, founded and formed by Bill Andrews (Death). Lee is said to be one of the creators of the vocal style called the death grunt or death growl, taking influence from the then Celtic Frost vocalist Thomas Gabriel Fischer (a.k.a. Tom G Warrior). - Gertrude Barrows Bennett
Gertrude Barrows Bennett was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923. - Gallomo
Gallomo was the name of a circle of literary correspondence between Alfred Galpin, H.P. Lovecraft, and Maurice W. Moe in the first couple decades of the 20th century. The name is derived from the first syllable of each author's last name. It's mostly notable for Lovecraft's involvement, as he often used it to workshop stories on which he was working (for example, The Statement of Randolph Carter) or discuss strange dreams he had recently had. - Byron Roberts
Byron Roberts (aka "Lord Byron") is the singer for the British symphonic extreme metal band Bal-Sagoth. Originally hailing from Yorkshire, England, and also holding full Canadian citizenship, Byron graduated from university with an Honours Degree in English. - Dirk Hooper
Dirk Hooper (born 1969) is an American fetish photographer and fetish artist. He was raised in Moore, Oklahoma, where he resides today. He attended the University of Oklahoma in 1988 for filmmaking and again in 1999 where he pursued a degree in media arts with an emphasis in photography. During the mid nineties, Dirk had a stint as a comic artist and comic writer on a comic named "Rough Cut" and a pin up comic titled "Bad Girls". - Chris Huston
Christopher 'Chris' Huston is a leading British-born record engineer and guitarist. Huston arrived in Wallasey, near Liverpool, toward the end of World War II from an orphanage in North Wales. As a teenager he began studies at the Liverpool College of Art, where he became friends with John Lennon and, like Lennon, began copying the American R&B music imported through the city. In 1961 he joined The Undertakers, one of the leading local Merseybeat bands, as lead guitarist, … - Ethan Kenning
Ethan Kenning (born Charles Ethan Kenning, August 19, 1943 in Chicago, Illinois) is better known as George Edwards, leader of '60s acid-rock band, H.P. Lovecraft. - Tom Bevis
Thomas Bevis cames from a small and uninvolved family. At an early age, he took to several forms of art, focusing on drawing,music, and writing. In his youth, he read horror pulp novels such as those by R.L. Stine, but his tastes evolved as he grew and he soon came to love Stephen King, H.P. Lovecraft, and Richard Matheson. <br />Initially, he tried to focus on music as his main mode of expression. - H.P. Lovecraft
I was born on 20 August 1890 at 9:00 am in my family home at 194 (now 454) Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. I was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman of jewelry and precious metals, and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, who could trace her ancestry in America back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630. Unusual for the time, both of my parents were in their thirties when they married and it was the first marriage for both. - H.P. Lovecraft
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, plus connu sous l'appellation H. P. Lovecraft ou même HPL (Providence, Rhode Island, 20 août 1890 - Providence, 15 mars 1937), écrivain américain, est l'un des pères de la littérature fantastique et d'épouvante du XXe siècle. Il est l'auteur d'une soixantaine de nouvelles, d'un roman ainsi que de poèmes. - H.P Lovecraft
This page is dedicated to lengendary horror writer H.P Lovecraft. Often ranked as Edgar Allan's equal. Over the years his work has inspired many artists, authors and muscians such as Steven King, Robert Bolsh, Black Sabbath, Aaron John and Cradle of Filth to name a few. - H.P. Lovecraft
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H.P. Lovecraft once wrote: “The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. And the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.” I began this project by thinking about what scares me. The answer for me is in something more primal and internal than a stalker or madman can deliver. I am talking about cosmic fears, a vast emptiness. Things that exist on different timescales than human—a consciousness so large, is actually crosses time and space.
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