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What is the creepiest quote from H.P. Lovecraft? ›

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There are horrors beyond life's edge that we do not suspect, and once in a while man's evil prying calls them just within our range.

Cthulhu. Cthulhu is the quintessential Lovecraftian god monster. It's what first comes to mind when people think about Lovecraft's writings. Throughout the years, we've been inundated with tremendous amount of grotesque monsters, demons and deities through our television screens.

You may also recognize the word as the name of the popular video game Eldritch, inspired by the stories of H.P. Lovecraft, who often used the word in his horror fiction.

Answer and Explanation: "H.P." in H.P. Lovecraft stands for "Howard Phillips". H.P. Lovecraft was an only child and, while he was born to a wealthy family, he saw his fortunes reverse at the turn of the century after the death of his father and then the ruin and death of his grandfather.

He was also frightened of invertebrates, marine life in general, temperatures below freezing, fat people, people of other races, race-mixing, slums, percussion instruments, caves, cellars, old age, great expanses of time, monumental architecture, non-Euclidean geometry, deserts, oceans, rats, dogs, the New England ...

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

In "The Call of Cthulhu", H. P. Lovecraft describes a statue of Cthulhu as: "A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind."

Azathoth -Outer God-

This being is the single most powerful in the universe, bar none. He created reality without His own knowledge, along with the many beings within that reality such as the Old Ones, Great Ones, and other God-like beings, which went on to create other beings.

Lovecraft first described Cthulhu's physical characteristics in "The Call of Cthulhu." The Cthulhu monster was described as an anthropoid, a being with characteristics like humans and other primates, with large claws on its head and feet, wings, and an octopus-like face with numerous rubbery feelers around a mouth.

Interestingly, King's evil creation shares many similarities with the horrors created by author H.P. Lovecraft. In fact, Pennywise is basically a Lovecraftian monster — here's why. It, Stephen King's 17th novel written under his own name, was published in 1986.

What did Lovecraft call his mythos? ›

Lovecraft himself humorously referred to his Mythos as "Yog Sothothery" (Dirk W. Mosig coincidentally suggested the term Yog-Sothoth Cycle of Myth be substituted for Cthulhu Mythos). At times, Lovecraft even had to remind his readers that his Mythos creations were entirely fictional.

Lovecraft wrote "The Hound" shortly afterwards, using as the name of one of the main characters his nickname for his companion Kleinhart, "St. John".

Diet. Mindflayer Sacrifices are their main diet but can also eat any animal it sees even if it isn't sacrificed.

R'lyehian is a fictional language spoken by ancient cosmic dieties (the Great Old Ones, see F'igure 1) in Lovecraft's 1926 short story Call of Cthulhu [7] and in his later work. Below is an example sentence in R'lyehian: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn.

I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me. I have looked upon all that the universe has to hold of horror, and even the skies of spring and the flowers of summer must ever afterward be poison to me.

Azathoth -Outer God-

This being is the single most powerful in the universe, bar none. He created reality without His own knowledge, along with the many beings within that reality such as the Old Ones, Great Ones, and other God-like beings, which went on to create other beings.

Azathoth is a deity in the Cthulhu Mythos and Dream Cycle stories of writer H. P. Lovecraft and other authors.

Lovecraftian horror, also called cosmic horror or eldritch horror, is a subgenre of horror fiction and weird fiction that emphasizes the horror of the unknowable and incomprehensible more than gore or other elements of shock.