lovecraftian
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1LOVECRAFTIAN + NOUN
fiction, horror
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adj
Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly, sometimes with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy.
The tip of the thing was equipped with long whiplike appendages that writhed around a loose, drooling, toothless mouth large enough to swallow a man whole...Perhaps this was the only thing that the escaping Lovecraftian entity had thus far been able to extrude between the opening Gates — this one finger.
Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
Lovecraftian horror
Lovecraftian fiction
noun
A fan of American author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).
For zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.”
Finally, we can draw a definitive fourth circle, at the absolute heart of HPL’s myth, which contains what most rabid Lovecraftians continue to call, almost in spite of themselves, the “great texts.”
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WiktionaryLovecraftian horror
WiktionaryLovecraftian fiction
WiktionaryFor zealous Lovecraftians there are a few choice tidbits—a short autobiography, his commonplace book, and his “History and Chronology of the Necronomicon.”
WiktionaryFinally, we can draw a definitive fourth circle, at the absolute heart of HPL’s myth, which contains what most rabid Lovecraftians continue to call, almost in spite of themselves, the “great texts.”
WiktionaryEveryone is a “creative anachronist,” but we Lovecraftians, like our cousins in other Buddha-fields of fandom, have elected to live a minority, sectarian existence in what sociologists Berger and Luck
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