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H.P. Lovecraft Wikipedia

Lovecraft Mythos. Forbidden Knowledge.

Tagged: E. Hoffmann Price

Publishing & reference

Collaboration and ghostwriting

Lovecraft’s collaborative corpus contains several different kinds of literary work: revision of another writer’s draft, extensive rewriting, fiction composed for another person’s byline, shared storytelling and later constructions from surviving material. Understanding those differences changes how a story should be credited and what it can establish about the development of the Mythos.

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Authors

E. Hoffmann Price

E. Hoffmann Price was a professional pulp writer, traveller and correspondent whose collaboration with Lovecraft produced Through the Gates of the Silver Key. His career also included detective fiction, adventure, fantasy novels and memoirs. Understanding that wider working life explains both his contribution to the Carter story and his disagreements with Lovecraft about commercial writing.

5 min read · 973 words

Generated painted interpretation of H. P. Lovecraft in a dark suit.
Authors

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of weird fiction, poetry, criticism and letters. His distinctive horror connects intimate human discoveries with immense, indifferent histories of the universe. The Cthulhu Mythos grew out of his stories and exchanges with other writers, then developed through publishing, fiction, film, games and critical responses after his death.

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Publishing & reference

Lovecraft circle

The Lovecraft circle was an overlapping network of correspondents, friends, writers, artists, editors and readers. Letters and circulated work connected people who did not necessarily meet, agree or write alike. Its importance lies both in the exchange of fictional inventions and in the practical support through which stories, drawings and documents reached other people.

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Publishing & reference

Publishing and magazines

The literary world surrounding Lovecraft consisted of intersecting amateur papers, commercial magazines, fan publications and specialist book publishers. Each offered different audiences and material possibilities. Following a story through those settings explains how a privately circulated name or an ephemeral magazine tale could become part of a durable tradition.

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Authors

Robert M. Price

Robert M. Price, born in 1954, is an American writer, critic and editor associated with Crypt of Cthulhu and numerous Mythos anthologies. His literary work combines historical inquiry, interpretation, humor and new fiction. He is also a writer on religion; he must not be confused with E. Hoffmann Price, Lovecraft’s contemporary and collaborator.

4 min read · 807 words

The disguised visitor at Carter’s estate meeting reveals an impossible identity.
Literature

Through the Gates of the Silver Key

Through the Gates of the Silver Key continues Carter’s disappearance into a journey beyond ordinary space, time and individual identity. Written by Lovecraft with E. Hoffmann Price, it frames the account as testimony at a meeting about Carter’s estate. The apparent freedom to inhabit other forms becomes a struggle to recover the human body and legal identity the traveler once took for granted.

9 min read · 1,780 words

Linked iridescent globes interpreting Yog-Sothoth’s museum-associated form.
Entities & creatures

Yog-Sothoth

Yog-Sothoth is associated with the boundaries of space and time, the opening of gates, forbidden invocation and a form of existence in which separate identities can become aspects of a larger whole. Its role ranges from the Whateleys’ attempted incursion at Dunwich to Randolph Carter’s encounter beyond the Ultimate Gate.

10 min read · 1,986 words