Horror author H.P. Lovecraft's monsters—collectively known as the Cthulhu mythos—are sometimes frustratingly formless. They're often described as asymmetrical, shapeshifting creatures, and the ...

Features The 10 scariest monsters from Lovecraft’s Cthulu Mythos. HP Lovecraft's stories are full of all kinds of unknowable creatures, but these ten might be the most frightening of the lot ...

Lovecraft’s fictional universe in stories such as “The Call of Cthulhu” (published in 1926) created a subgenre — often involving the unknown and creatures with extraterrestrial elements ...

These monsters are significantly smaller than Cthulhu, but also have octopus-like tentacles. Shoggoths (Maybe) In Lovecraft Country, we also encounter shoggoths.

While it’s set in the 1950s, the new HBO series “Lovecraft Country” is debuting at a time when it could hardly be more timely. Based on Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel, “Lovecraft Country ...

Lovecraft Country is only the latest in a series of movies, television series and novels to engage with America's greatest moral, economic, social and psychological wound — the legacy of slavery ...

Lovecraft Country’s first trailer teems with monsters, genre subversion, and social allegory Jordan Peele’s upcoming HBO series places Lovecraftian cosmic horror within 1950s Jim Crow America ...

Gou Tanabe's graphic novel adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's novella makes its monsters both terrifying and weirdly human. Even if space spheres aren't your thing, Tanabe's art still prompts wonder.

Television; Decoding ‘Lovecraft Country’: What the Monsters Really Mean HBO’s new horror series draws on symbols from history, art and pulp fiction to tell a story about race and history.

Gods & Monsters: Space as Lovecraft Envisioned it. Posted: June 4, 2025 | Last updated: June 4, 2025. H.P. Lovecraft is known as the father of the Cosmic Horror genre of fiction.

‘Lovecraft Country’ Series Premiere Tells a Story of Outsiders and Vampires. The Hollywood Reporter provides a primer on the monsters and horrors at the heart of the HBO drama's first episode.

H.P. Lovecraft first wrote about blob-like creatures called Shoggoths in the late ’20s in a series of sonnets, and they appeared in his 1936 novella “At the Mountains of Madness.” ...