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'''H. P. Lovecraft''' (1890-1937) was an [[United States of America|American]] author of fantasy and horror tales.  He is the author who created the [[Cthulhu]] mythos, a fantasy world adapted by many subsequent authors. Lovecraft horror took many influences from [[Edgar Allan Poe]], [[Satanism]] and violent visions. On his ''At the Mountains of Madness'' he defends [[evolutionism|evolutionist religion]] as a truth.
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'''H. P. Lovecraft''' (1890-1937) was an [[United States of America|American]] author of fantasy and horror tales.  He is the author who created the [[Cthulhu]] mythos, a fantasy world adapted by many subsequent authors. Lovecraft horror took many influences from [[Edgar Allan Poe]]. Lovecraft often openly attacked religion and idealism portraying it as blind ignorance in the face of a terrifying reality.
  
Lovecraft has been accused of racism against Africans, Asians, and Arabs, as well as antisemitism for his portrayal of foreigners as keepers of evil secrets.
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Lovecraft has been accused of bigotry against Africans, Asians, Arabs, and Jews.  
  
 
==Works==
 
==Works==

Revision as of 02:37, January 15, 2009

He is in the picture

H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror tales. He is the author who created the Cthulhu mythos, a fantasy world adapted by many subsequent authors. Lovecraft horror took many influences from Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft often openly attacked religion and idealism portraying it as blind ignorance in the face of a terrifying reality.

Lovecraft has been accused of bigotry against Africans, Asians, Arabs, and Jews.

Works

  • Dagon
  • The Call of Cthulhu
  • The Other Gods
  • The Shadow Over Innsmouth
  • At the Mountains of Madness