Although they did not create stories centered around each other’s characters, they created a mythos that became canon as elements of a shared universe.ĭespite the popularity of the Cthulhu Mythos, it was never intended to serve as the central story in any of these authors’ works.
Lovecraft and Howard kept in regular contact and would pay homage to each other’s works by referencing them in their own stories. Howard, the creator of the Conan stories. Of particular note was the author Robert E. Although Howard’s stories exist in a time long before the stories written by Lovecraft, many of the malevolent gods and beings appear in the writings of both authors via Howard, the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, set his stories in the shared fictional universe of the Cthulhu Mythos created by H.P. Some of the writers in the “Lovecraft Circle” were famed during the era of pulp magazines, and their tales could be found within the covers of Weird Tales and other science fiction and horror pulps. In the latter part of his life, the mythos expanded significantly as a small group of authors, with whom Lovecraft corresponded, borrowed themes and elements from Lovecraft as well as each other.
The first stage of development was one characterized by Lovecraft himself when he was alive and writing. The development of the Cthulhu Mythos can be neatly separated into several chronological stages. They were picked up by subsequent writers who added to the shared universe that he created, constructing, in the process, a massive backdrop that came to be known as the Lovecraftian or Cthulhu Mythos. His genre was that of “cosmic horror,” and the monsters he created were so terrifying that those unlucky enough to encounter them would lose their sanity. It was a new type of horror that had its origins in space and beyond the realms of human understanding.
What Lovecraft introduced us to, however, was no ordinary horror. Authors such as Stephen King would cite H.P. He struggled in life, psychologically and financially, but what he wrote would achieve cult status and be recognized as the seminal works of horror that would inspire generations in the following decades. In the early years of the 20th century, a horror writer in Providence, New England was feverishly detailing the terrifying visions that his imagination held.
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