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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 ... See full bio »
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The Music of Erich Zann (Short) (original story) (pre-production)
2019
Herbert West: Reanimator (short story) (pre-production)
2018
Psychopompos (based on a dramatic poem by) (completed)
2017
Arkham Sanitarium (post-production)
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The Whisperer in Darkness (based on the short story by) (announced)
Vägen till Necronomicon (Video short) (based upon the life of)
2017
H.P. Lovecraft's the Terrible Old Man (Short) (based on a story by)
2017
Herbert West: Re-Animator (story)
2017
L'Appel de Cthulhu: L'île (TV Mini-Series) (novel - 4 episodes)
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The Haunter of the Dark 2 (short story)
2017
Call of Cthulhu (Video Game) (short story)
2017
Sandra Munt's Adventure (TV Short) (inspired by)
2016
Dead Tongues (story)
2016
The Music of Erich Zann (Short) (source)
2016
The Strange Case of Lucio Belmonte (Short) (inspired by)
2016
At the Mountains of Madness (Short) (original story - uncredited)
2016
H.P. Lovecraft's the Beast in the Cave (Short) (story)
2016
Azathoth (Short) (original story)
2016
L'Appel de Cthulhu (TV Mini-Series) (uncredited)
2015
The Stranger Who Came from the Deep (Short) (inspired by)
2015
Portal to Hell!!! (Short) (inspired by the books of)
2015
Innsmouth (Short) (original stories)
2015
Strange Aeons (TV Mini-Series short) (based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by - 3 episodes, 2015) (based on the novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by - 1 episode, 2014)
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- Innsmouth (2014) ... (based on the novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by)
13 Weird Stories (based on a story by - segment "A Cor que Caiu do Espaço")
2015
The Last Case of August T. Harrison (inspired by the writings of - uncredited)
2015
H.P. Lovecraft the Game: Terrible Old Man (Short) (inspired by)
2015
The Haunter of the Dark (original story)
2015
La noche del océano (Short)
2015
From Beyond (Short) (writer)
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Memory (Short) (writer)
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The Deep End (Short) (inspired by)
2014
Call Girl of Cthulhu (inspired by the works of)
2014
El modelo de Pickman (Short) (based on a story by)
2014
Miskatonic University (Short) (inspired by)
2014
The Deep Ones (Short) (inspired by)
2013
Subb Niggurath (Short) (based on the works of)
2013
Marquis: Into the Murky Depths (Video short) (story)
2013
Pickman's Model (Short) (short)
2012
Muerte cerebral (Short) (characters)
2012
Night Gaunts (Short) (inspired by the works of)
2012
The Music of Jo Hyeja (Short) (original story by)
2012
In Between (Short) (inspired by)
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The Terrible Old Man (Short) (original story)
2012
H.P. Lovecraft's The Silver Key (Short) (story)
2011
Shadow Beyond Time (Short) (novellas "The Shadow Out of Time" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth")
2011
Shadow of the Unnamable (Short) (short story)
2011
The Curse of Yig (Short) (original story)
2011
The Whisperer in Darkness (story)
2011
Hunters of the Dark (Short) (inspired by the works of)
2011
Mr. Noyes (Short)
2010
Three Shadows (short story The Shuttered Room)
2010
Innsbay (Short) (story)
2010
Nekromania (Short) (novel)
2010
The Color Out of Space (short story)
2010
Tähdet ovat väärin (Video) (mythology)
2010
The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow (inspired by the works of)
2010
Fyren (Short) (inspired by)
2010
The Picture in the House (Short) (short story)
2010
Pickman's Muse (inspired by "Haunter of the Dark")
2010
The Horror Vault 3 (Video) (inspired by the works of)
2010
Vigor Mortis (Short) (story)
2010
The Valdemar Legacy (inspired by the works of)
2010
The Silver Key (Short) (story)
2010
Ex Oblivione (Short) (story) / (writer)
2009
The Dunwich Horror (TV Movie) (story)
2009
From the Dark (Short) (original story)
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The Music of Erich Zann (Short) (short story)
2009/II
The Picture in the House (Video short) (short story)
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The Music of Erich Zann (Short) (story)
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The Horror Vault 2 (Video) (inspired by the works of)
2009
The Statement of Randolph Carter (Short) (short story)
2008
Colour from the Dark (story)
2008
The Book (Short) (after: short stories "The Book" and "The Descendant")
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Beyond the Dunwich Horror (short story)
2008
Re-Animator: 1942 (Short) (story)
2008
Pickman's Model (Video short) (story)
2008
The Whisperer in Darkness (short story)
2007
The Statement (Short) (short story "The Statement of Randolph Carter")
2007
H.P. Lovecraft's The Terrible Old Man (Short) (story)
2007
H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror and Other Stories (short stories)
2007
The Tomb (Video) (short story)
2007
Cthulhu (book)
2007
Kammaren (inspiration)
2007
Beyond Lovesauce (Short) (inspiration)
2007
Chill (Video) (short story "Cool Air")
2007
Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened (Video Game) (ideas)
2006
Dunwich (Short) (short story)
2006
The Other Gods (Video short) (short story)
2006
Cool Air (Video) (short story)
2006
The Rats in the Walls
2006
From Beyond (Short) (short story)
2006
The Horror of H.P. Lovecraft (story & inspiration)
2006
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (story)
2006
The Mountains of Madness (Video) (short stories)
2006
Masters of Horror (TV Series) (short story - 1 episode)
2005
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Die Musik des Erich Zann (Short) (short story)
2005
ReCreation (Short) (inspiration)
2005
The Call of Cthulhu (short story)
2005
The Statement of Randolph Carter (Short) (short story)
2005
Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep (short story)
2005
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth (Video Game) (based on the game by)
2005
Asleep in the Deep (Short) (story)
2005
Innsmouth Legacy (Short) (short story)
2004
13:de mars 1941 (Short) (inspiration)
2004
Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle (Short) (short story)
2004
Tomb of Terror (Video) (story "The Lurking Fear" - segment "Infinite Evil")
2004
The Halfway House (inspiration - uncredited)
2004
Justice League (TV Series) (inspired by the works of - 2 episodes)
2003
- The Terror Beyond: Part II (2003) ... (inspired by the works of - uncredited) - The Terror Beyond (2003) ... (inspired by the works of - uncredited)
The Shunned House (Video) (short stories)
2003
Pickman's Model (Short) (short story)
2003
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (short story)
2003
The Thing on the Doorstep (short story)
2003
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2003
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The Picture in the House (Short) (original story)
2003
The Evil Clergymen (Short) (short story)
2002
The Music of Erica Zann (short story)
2002
Corpse-O-Rama (Video) (characters)
2001
Dagon (short stories "Dagon" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth")
2001
Unknown Beyond (Video) (mythology)
2001
Nyarlathotep (Short) (short story)
2001
Le peuple ancien (Short) (story "The Very Old Folk")
2001
Rough Magik (TV Short) (work)
2000
Chilean Gothic (story "Pickman's Model")
2000
Cthulhu (ideas)
2000
Cool Air (Short) (story)
1999
Return to Innsmouth (Video short) (short story)
1999
Mystery of the Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (Video) (inspiration)
1999
Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (TV Movie) (inspiration)
1998
The Outsider (Short) (short story)
1998
Hemoglobin (short story "The Lurking Fear" - uncredited)
1997
From Beyond (Short) (original story)
1997
The Hound (Short) (based on a story by)
1997
Calls for Cthulhu (Video short) (character: Cthulhu)
1996
Cthulhu Wore Tennis Shoes (Short) (characters)
1996
Castle Freak (Video) (story "The Outsider")
1995
Lurking Fear (short story)
1994
The Outsider (Short) (short story)
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Necronomicon: Book of Dead (stories The Rats in the Walls, Cool Air and The Whisperer in Darkness)
1993
Splatterhouse 3 (Video Game) (characters)
1993
Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet (Video Game) (characters and universe)
1993
The Outsider (Short)
1993
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (characters)
1992
Insumasu o ouu Kage (TV Movie) (book)
1992
Splatterhouse 2 (Video Game) (characters)
1992
Cthulhu Mansion (inspiration)
1992
The Resurrected (story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward")
1991
Dark Heritage (story "The Lurking Fear" - uncredited)
1989
Bride of Re-Animator (characters)
1989
Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti (Video Game) (characters)
1989
Pulse Pounders (story "The Evil Clergyman")
1988
The Unnamable (short story - as Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
1988
Epikindyni zoni (Short) (short story)
1988
The Testimony of Randolph Carter
1987
The Curse (story "The Colour Out of Space" - uncredited)
1987
From Beyond (short story)
1986
Re-Animator (story "Herbert West, Re-Animator")
1985
Il fascino dell'insolito (TV Series) (short story "The Thing on the Door Step" - 1 episode)
1982
- La cosa sulla soglia (1982) ... (short story "The Thing on the Door Step")
La chiave d'argento (TV Movie) (short story "The Silver Key")
1982
Pickman's Model (Short) (story)
1981
The House by the Cemetery (inspiration - uncredited)
1981
The Music of Erich Zann (Short) (short story)
1980
City of the Living Dead (inspiration - uncredited)
1980
Screamers (story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" - uncredited)
1979
H.P. Lovecraft: Schatten aus der Zeit (TV Movie) (short story)
1975
Night Gallery (TV Series) (short story "Cool Air" - 1 episode, 1971) (short story - 1 episode, 1971)
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The Dunwich Horror (based on the story by)
1970
The Crimson Cult (story "The Dreams in the Witch House" - uncredited)
1968
The Shuttered Room (book)
1967
Monster of Terror (from "The Colour Out of Space")
1965
The Haunted Palace (and a story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by)
1963
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Other Works: Book: "Tales of H.P. Lovecraft", Selected, Edited and Introduction by Joyce Carol Oates. New York: The Ecco Press (An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers), ISBN0-06-095790-5. See more » Publicity Listings: 5 Biographical Movies | 7 Print Biographies | 6 Portrayals | 4 Articles | 1 Magazine Cover Photo | See more » Official Sites: The H.P. Lovecraft Archive Alternate Names: Howard Phillips Lovecraft Height: 5' 10¾" (1.8 m)
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Personal Quote: I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyze than to feel. See more » Trivia: There is an area of Pluto named Cthulu Regio. See more » Trademark: Tales of gothic horror, especially related to mysterious and monstrous entities called "Great Old Ones," such as Cthulhu Star Sign: Leo
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