![]() Nowhere is this more evident than in the loosely linked cycle of stories known as the Cthulhu Mythos. But within these modest confines, Lovecraft brought dark fantasy screaming into the 20th century, taking the genre, almost literally, into a new dimension. The bulk of his short stories appeared in Weird Tales, a pulp magazine devoted to the supernatural. Consumed by cancer in 1937 at the age of 46, the last scion of a faded aristocratic New England family, the horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft left one of America’s most curious literary legacies. You can read more sample articles from the Darklore series at the Darklore website. This article by Erik Davis is excerpted from Darklore Volume 5, which is available for sale from Amazon US and Amazon UK.
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