Meaning of Lovecraftian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Frighteningly monstrous and otherworldly, sometimes with terrifyingly unnatural anatomy.
2. Of, pertaining to, or emulating the style or works of author H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937).

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Examples

“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.”

“Lovecraftian horror”

“Lovecraftian fiction”

“The present story, "Born of the Winds", is one of the best. For one thing, the vision of the story is pure Lovecraftian cosmic pessimism.”

“That abandonment, incidentally, compelled Sam’s mother to fill her young son’s head with H. P. Lovecraftian horror-style lies about the interior of Emily Dickinson’s house, lies that motivated her son’s break-in to begin with.”

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