H. P. Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft is best known for his rather strange
stories which often involved people meddling with the remains of ancient
civilizations and awakening monsters and other Things Man Was Not Meant To
Know. He is one of the best-known of the horror writers of the early
1900's. His stories usually were set in New England (where he grew up),
and dealt with a fictional mythology of elder gods and minions known
collectively as the Cthulhu Mythos. Since Lovecraft's death, several
writers have penned stories in the Cthulhu settings. Furthermore several
movies and a Role Playing Game have been set in Lovecraft's dark little world.
Check this site out for a more in-depth view of the life and works of Lovecraft,
Miskatonic University, a fictional school which is the focus of several stories, held books containing the forbidden lore of the Cthulhu Mythos, volumes which could tear away sanity by simply reading the pages. Check out three websites for Miskatonic University miskatonic.net, .miskatonic-university.org and another one. The last one includes a fine listing of books in the library. Oh, and there's more: Miskatonic University campus at Sunnydale. And an MU site that looks like it's for LARP, but has names, pictures and so forth that could be of use. |
| Miskatonic University Press. |
| Arkham House: Publishes horror tales. |
| A most intriguing virtual tour of the Miskatonic Mansion. |
| The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society |
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A Color Out of Space, A Shadow Out of Time: H.P. Lovecraft & His Works By J. Edward Tremlett |
| Yog-Sothoth.com: a fan site for Call of Cthulhu. |
| Project NEMESIS: More fan-driven Mythos goodness. |
| Cthulhu Lives! is a website for a LARP. |
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Various Cthulhu links from Cthulhu.org. |
Another page with Cthulhu Mythos resources.DEAD LINK |
| Tales of Terror: Story seeds for CoC and similar games. |
| A writeup of the Voynich Manuscript, with many links. |
A Chick tract, Cthulhu-style. DEAD LINK, Thanks to Chick. No sense of humor. |
| Manly Wade Wellman: Though sometimes compared to Lovecraft, this less well-known writer set his distinctive supernatural stories primarily in the Appalachians. |
| Pow-Wows, or a Long-Lost Friend by John George Hoffman. Written in the 1820s, Folk magic, Christian theology and a touch of shamanistic belief. |
| Investigators have more than their share of corpses to contend with. Here is a page on autopsies and signs of death From Monstrous.com. |
