| rdfs:comment | - Son œuvre littéraire, méconnue de son vivant, fut unanimement acclamée dès lors qu'elle fut plagiée par l'auteur américain homonyme H.P. Lovecraft.
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none H. P. Lovecraft File:H.P. Lovecraft.jpg Gallery Real Name Howard Phillips Lovecraft Pseudonyms H.P. Lovecraft Gender Date of Birth August 20, 1890 Date of Death March 15, 1937 Place of Birth Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America Creations Shuma-Gorath (inspired) First publication Unknown
- See H.P. Lovecraft
- Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT (anglalingve 'lʌv.kɹӕft) hungara esperantisto (naskiĝis 1890, mortis 1937) estis usona aŭtoro de fantazia kaj honora fikcio, ofte kun scienca etoso. La legantaro de Lovecraft estis iom malgranda dum lia vivo, sed liaj veroj iĝis tre gravaj kaj influaj inter verkistoj kaj legantoj de honorfikcio.
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, but his works have become quite important and influential among writers and fans of horror fiction. Much of Lovecraft's work was directly inspired by his nightmares, and it is perhaps this direct insight into subconscious fears that helps to account for their continuing popularity.
- It was not meant that we should use a simple spellcheck to cover our own ineptitudes, and had it been known what foul ravings would creep onto our website under the cover of wretched darkness, we would have tried inexorably to keep constant vigilance in the form of a log, thus that or natural cravings for hidden knowledge could be be tickled by its unearthly reply. Harsh and unrelenting imprisonment in the ravaged husks of our own minds would have invariably been our fates, for all of time, both having passed and yet to come. ///Here begins the message///
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of weird fiction whose work has had a lasting imprint on popular horror and science fiction. Indirect influence on the seminal concepts of Doom may be seen in the two movies that have been mentioned as having helped define the underlying character of the game. On one hand, the brooding theme in the Aliens series added to the concept of mere humans facing strange and terrible super-creatures, and on the other, that the evil unleashed in Evil Dead II comes from tampering with the Necronomicon, a fictional book appearing in Lovecraft's tales.
- His 1936 novella At the Mountains of Madness introduced the fictional alien race called the Elder Things, the creators of the Shoggoths. A Celestis fictional generator would later bring them to life. The Eighth Doctor spoke of having corresponded with Lovecraft and their shared love of ice cream. The Doctor had even considered taking him on a trip to the 18th century but decided that it would have just disillusioned the writer.
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) - better known as H.P. Lovecraft - was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant authors of the 20th century.
|
| abstract | - Son œuvre littéraire, méconnue de son vivant, fut unanimement acclamée dès lors qu'elle fut plagiée par l'auteur américain homonyme H.P. Lovecraft.
- It was not meant that we should use a simple spellcheck to cover our own ineptitudes, and had it been known what foul ravings would creep onto our website under the cover of wretched darkness, we would have tried inexorably to keep constant vigilance in the form of a log, thus that or natural cravings for hidden knowledge could be be tickled by its unearthly reply. Harsh and unrelenting imprisonment in the ravaged husks of our own minds would have invariably been our fates, for all of time, both having passed and yet to come. The great unwashed, each mashing their keyboards in the darkness of their parents' basements, have hitherto harmed us little in our blissful ignorance; but perhaps their random effusions have now conspired to allow an article of whose utter, mind-destroying idiocy, deep seated as it is in unfathomable and yet undeniable truths, will send us screaming to our nearest Webster's Dictionary, seeking structured and reasoned solace from the coming storm of inescapable realizations now sneaking their vile repercussions into the deepest regions of our very souls; a cacophony of unrequited sorrows writhing in the filth of untold woes, beating our thoughts into willing and unquestioning submission to a boundless madness. Who wrote such blasphemous, unrelenting and wicked ramblings shall remain a mystery; for the following is a peculiar message that had suddenly and inexplicably materialized as an article on Uncyclopedia. It had come to be here after a seemingly impossible eldritch power failure lashed out at the website's server with a seeming sense of purpose, perhaps even urgency, during a stormy night when wolves, ravens and cicadas alike were unusually persevering in a combined cacaphonic frenzy previously unheard by any mortal ear, and a massive aurora borealis was observed across even the far reaches of the Northern Hemisphere. Not one among the living knows where the message came from, other than that the message itself hints at an origin so horrible and blasphemous that any further details of its foul beginnings are perhaps best left unknown. ///Here begins the message///
- __NOEDITSECTION__ Image:Information-silk.png|Character Template rect 0 0 20 20 Staff Template desc none H. P. Lovecraft File:H.P. Lovecraft.jpg Gallery Real Name Howard Phillips Lovecraft Pseudonyms H.P. Lovecraft Gender Date of Birth August 20, 1890 Date of Death March 15, 1937 Place of Birth Providence, Rhode Island, United States of America Creations Shuma-Gorath (inspired) First publication Unknown
- See H.P. Lovecraft
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) - better known as H.P. Lovecraft - was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. Virtually unknown and only published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, he is now regarded as one of the most significant authors of the 20th century. Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. His father was confined to a mental institution when Lovecraft was three years old. His grandfather, a wealthy businessman, enjoyed storytelling and was an early influence. Intellectually precocious but sensitive, Lovecraft began composing rudimentary horror tales by the age of eight, but suffered from overwhelming feelings of anxiety. He encountered problems with classmates in school, and was kept at home by his highly strung and overbearing mother for illnesses that may have been psychosomatic. In high school, Lovecraft was able to better connect with his peers and form friendships. He also involved neighborhood children in elaborate make-believe projects, only regretfully ceasing the activity at seventeen years old. Despite leaving school in 1908 without graduating — he found mathematics particularly difficult — Lovecraft had developed a formidable knowledge of his favored subjects, such as history, linguistics, chemistry, and astronomy. Although he seems to have had some social life, attending meetings of a club for local young men, Lovecraft, in early adulthood, was established in a reclusive 'nightbird' lifestyle without occupation or pursuit of romantic adventures. In 1913 his conduct of a long running controversy in the letters page of a story magazine led to his being invited to participate in an amateur journalism association. Encouraged, he started circulating his stories; he was 31 at the time of his first publication in a professional magazine. Lovecraft contracted a marriage to an older woman he had met at an association conference. By age 34, he was a regular contributor to newly founded Weird Tales magazine; he turned down an offer of the editorship. Lovecraft returned to Providence from New York in 1926, and over the next nine months he produced some of his most celebrated tales including "The Call of Cthulhu", canonical to the Cthulhu Mythos. Never able to support himself from earnings as author and editor, Lovecraft saw commercial success increasingly elude him in this latter period, partly because he lacked the confidence and drive to promote himself. He subsisted in progressively straitened circumstances in his last years; an inheritance was completely spent by the time he died at the age of 46. Although his works are not considered "Steampunk", "dieselpunk" or similar "-punk", his influence in the genres in undeniable, as "ancient horrors", both of the Cthulu Mythos proper and of similar backgrounds, often feature in steampunk, dieselpunk, clockpunk and cyberpunk in Victorian, pre-Victorian, 20th/21st century and futuristic settings, some lying firmly within the steampunk genre, such as the "Cthulu by Gaslight" role-playing game.
- His 1936 novella At the Mountains of Madness introduced the fictional alien race called the Elder Things, the creators of the Shoggoths. A Celestis fictional generator would later bring them to life. The Eighth Doctor spoke of having corresponded with Lovecraft and their shared love of ice cream. The Doctor had even considered taking him on a trip to the 18th century but decided that it would have just disillusioned the writer. Fitz Kreiner never read anything by Lovecraft. As a child, he had once picked up a book by the author but his mother had seen the book and assumed that "lovecraft" was the subject. (PROSE: The Taking of Planet 5)
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 - March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, but his works have become quite important and influential among writers and fans of horror fiction. His early fantasies were greatly influenced by the stories of Lord Dunsany, but later took on a darker tone with the creation of what is today often called the Cthulhu Mythos, a pantheon of deities and horrors which live extra-dimensionally. His stories created one of the most influential plot devices in all of horror: the Necronomicon, the secret grimoire written by the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred. His prose is somewhat antiquarian and tends toward the grant guignol. He was fond of heavy use of unfamiliar adjectives such as "eldritch", "rugose", "noisome", "squamous", and "cyclopean", and of attempts to transcribe dialect speech which have been criticized as inaccurate. His works also featured British English (he was an admitted Anglophile) as well as anachronistic spellings, such as "compleat/complete", "lanthorn/lantern", and "divers/diverse". Much of Lovecraft's work was directly inspired by his nightmares, and it is perhaps this direct insight into subconscious fears that helps to account for their continuing popularity. Many later creators of horror writing and films show influences from Lovecraft, including Clive Barker and H. R. Giger. Others, notably Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, and Brian Lumley, have written stories that are explicitly set in the same "universe" as Lovecraft's original stories. Lovecraft pastiches are common.
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of weird fiction whose work has had a lasting imprint on popular horror and science fiction. Indirect influence on the seminal concepts of Doom may be seen in the two movies that have been mentioned as having helped define the underlying character of the game. On one hand, the brooding theme in the Aliens series added to the concept of mere humans facing strange and terrible super-creatures, and on the other, that the evil unleashed in Evil Dead II comes from tampering with the Necronomicon, a fictional book appearing in Lovecraft's tales. The lead designer of Doom during the later parts of development, Sandy Petersen, was very familiar with the author's work, and had previously designed the Lovecraftian table-top role-playing game, Call of Cthulhu, for Chaosium. It may have been Petersen who inserted a couple of more explicit references to the author and his legacy, namely:
* The teleporter flats and associated pentagram-like skin textures display symbols that appear in the Simon Necronomicon, a popular rendition of the fictional book first published in 1977, where they depict the symbols on a gray stone gate to "the Outside". The inclusion of these symbols may have been suggested equally by Sandy Petersen because of his affinity to Lovecraft or by any of the id Software staff having Evil Dead II in mind.
* Sandy Petersen's E3M6 is named Mt. Erebus. The mythological place Erebus is originally a deep place of utter darkness and the personification of shadow, but Petersen chose a bright lava-filled open area in reference to the volcano in Antarctica, which is incidentally located where one of Lovecraft's most celebrated tales, At the Mountains of Madness, takes place. In the tale the volcano is described and associated with Edgar Allan Poe's Mount Yaanek (in his poem Ulalume), taking a special and ominous significance. Petersen's authorship of the level and his ties to Lovecraft's work make this a certain reference likely attributable to him.
- Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT (anglalingve 'lʌv.kɹӕft) hungara esperantisto (naskiĝis 1890, mortis 1937) estis usona aŭtoro de fantazia kaj honora fikcio, ofte kun scienca etoso. La legantaro de Lovecraft estis iom malgranda dum lia vivo, sed liaj veroj iĝis tre gravaj kaj influaj inter verkistoj kaj legantoj de honorfikcio.
|
