A Gibbering Mass of Lovecraftean Goodness

By: Cacophonism

Howard Phillips “H. P.” Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.

Lovecraft’s guiding literary principle was what he termed “cosmicism” or “cosmic horror”, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. As early as the 1940s, Lovecraft’s work had developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fiction featuring a pantheon of humanity-nullifying entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical, challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, Humanism and Christianity. Lovecraft’s protagonists usually achieve the antithesis of traditional gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate reality and the abyss.

Although Lovecraft’s readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th century. According to Joyce Carol Oates, Lovecraft — as with Edgar Allan Poe in the 19th century — has exerted “an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction”. Stephen King called Lovecraft “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.” King has even made it clear in his semi-autobiographical non-fiction book Danse Macabre that Lovecraft was responsible for his own fascination with horror and the macabre, and was the single largest figure to influence his fiction writing.

Lovecraft’s themes and ideas have had a profound effect on culture and literature in general, and have embedded themselves into the foundation that is used for horror associated with the strange.

Mostly IMDB with some additions:
The Haunted Palace (1963) – “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”
Die, Monster, Die! (1965) – “The Colour Out of Space”
The Shuttered Room (1967) – “The Shuttered Room”
Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968) – “Dreams in the Witch House”
The Dunwich Horror (1970) – “The Dunwich Horror”
Screamers (1979) – “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
City of the Living Dead (1980) – Lovecraft-inspired
The Music of Erich Zann (1980) – “The Music of Erich Zann”
The House by the Cemetery (1981) – Lovecraft-inspired
Pickman’s Model (1981) – “Pickman’s Model”
Re-Animator (1985) – “Herbert West: Re-Animator”
From Beyond (1986) – “From Beyond”
The Curse (1987) – “The Colour Out of Space”
Pulse Pounders (1988) – “The Evil Clergyman”
Epikindyni Zoni (1988) – “Epikindyni Zoni”
The Unnamable (1988) – “The Unnamable”
Dark Heritage (1989) – “The Lurking Fear”
Bride of Re-Animator (1990) – “Herbert West: Re-Animator” (characters)
Cthulhu Mansion (1992) – Lovecraft-inspired
The Resurrected (a.k.a. Shatterbrain) (1992) – “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward”
The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter (1993) – “The Unnamable” & “The Statement of Randolph Carter” (characters)
Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1993) – “The Rats in the Walls”, “Cool Air” & “The Whisperer in Darkness”
The Outsider (1994) – “The Outsider”
Lurking Fear (1994) – “The Lurking Fear”
In the Mouth of Madness (1994) – Lovecraft-inspired
Castle Freak (1995) – “The Outsider”
Bleeders (1997) – “The Lurking Fear”
Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft (1998) – Lovecraft-inspired
Mystery of Necronomicon: Book of the Dead (1999) – Lovecraft-inspired
Return to Innsmouth (1999) – “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
Cool Air (1999) – “Cool Air”
Cthulhu (2000) – Lovecraft-inspired
Chilean Gothic (2000) – “Pickman’s Model”
Rough Magik (2000) – Lovecraft-inspired
Corpse-O-Rama (2001) – Lovecraft-inspired
Le Peuple Ancien (2001) – “The Very Old Folk”
Nyarlathotep (2001) – “Nyarlathotep”
Unknown Beyond (2001) – Lovecraft-inspired
Dagon (2001) – “Dagon” & “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
The Music of Erica Zann (2002) – “The Music of Erich Zann”
The Evil Clergyman (2002) – “The Evil Clergyman”
The Eldritch Influence: The Life, Vision, and Phenomenon of H.P. Lovecraft (2003) – Lovecraft-inspired
An Imperfect Solution: A Tale of the Re-Animator (2003) – “Herbert West: Re-Animator”
Beyond Re-Animator (2003) – “Herbert West: Re-Animator” (characters)
The Thing on the Doorstep (2003) – “The Thing on the Doorstep”
Pickman’s Model (2003) – “Pickman’s Model”
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (2003) – “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath”
The Shunned House (2003) – “The Shunned House”
The Halfway House (2004) – Lovecraft-inspired
Tomb of Terror (2004) – “The Lurking Fear” & “Infinite Evil”
Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle (2004) – Lovecraft-inspired
March 13th, 1941 (2004) – Lovecraft-inspired
Innsmouth Legacy (2004) – “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”
Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep (2005) – “The Thing on the Doorstep”
The Statement of Randolph Carter (2005) – “The Statement of Randolph Carter”
The Call of Cthulhu (2005) – “The Call of Cthulhu”
ReCreation (2005) – Lovecraft-inspired
Die Musik des Erich Zann (2005) – “The Music of Erich Zann”
Dreams in the Witch-House (2005) – “Dreams in the Witch House”
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (2006) – “Beyond the Wall of Sleep”
LovecraCked! The Movie (2006) – Lovecraft-inspired
Cool Air (2006) – “Cool Air”
The Other Gods (2006) – “The Other Gods”
Dunwich (2006) – “The Dunwich Horror”
The Rats in the Walls (2006) – “The Rats in the Walls”
Chill (2007) – “Cool Air”
Beyond Lovesauce (2007) – Lovecraft-inspired
Kammaren (2007) – Lovecraft-inspired
Cthulhu (2007) – “The Call of Cthulhu”
The Tomb (2007) – “The Tomb”
The Statement (2007) – “The Statement of Randolph Carter”
The Whisperer in Darkness (2007) – “The Whisperer in Darkness”
H.P. Lovecraft’s The Terrible Old Man (2007) – “The Terrible Old Man”
The Statement of Randolph Carter (2008) – “The Statement of Randolph Carter”
Pickman’s Model (2008) – “Pickman’s Model”
Re-Animator: 1942 (2008) – “Herbert West: Re-Animator”
Beyond the Dunwich Horror (2008) – “The Dunwich Horror”
Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (2008) – Lovecraft-inspired
The Book (2008) – “The Book” & “The Descendent”
Colour From the Dark (2008) – “The Colour Out of Space”
Horror Vault 2 (2009) – Lovecraft-inspired
The Picture in the House (2009) – “The Picture in the House”
The Music of Erich Zann (2009) – “The Music of Erich Zann”
The Dunwich Horror (2009) – “The Dunwich Horror”
Mr. Noyes (2010) – “The Whisperer in Darkness”
The Silver Key (2010) – “The Statement of Randolph Carter”
Vigor Mortis (2010) – Lovecraft-inspired
The Horror Vault 3 (2010) – Lovecraft-inspired
Pickman’s Muse (2010) – “The Haunter of the Dark”
Fyren (2010) – Lovecraft-inspired
Die Farbe (2010) – “The Colour Out of Space”
The Picture in the House (2010) – “The Picture in the House”
The Curse of Yig (2010) – “The Curse of Yig”
The Whisperer in Darkness (2011) – “The Whisperer in Darkness”