What did H.P. Lovecraft think about the real world?

Perhaps a single quote will suffice here. Lovecraft once said that “The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind.” read more

In the bibliographical study H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life, Michel Houellebecq suggested that the misfortunes fed Lovecraft's central motivation as a writer, which he said was racial resentment. read more

OK, cut to the punchline. Once and for all: the Necronomicon is fiction, pure fiction, invented by H. P. Lovecraft in his stories in the 1920s. There never was such a book, not nowhere, not no-how, before that. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is recognized as one of the world masters of tales of the macabre. read more