During his lifetime, this writer did not publish a single book, after his death he became an idol of both the mass reader and a sophisticated esthete, and an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the film and gaming industries; he was called the “Edgar Poe of the twentieth century,” a brilliant madman and an adept of secret knowledge; his work is so unique that it required separation into a separate subgenre; he was admired by Robert Howard and Clive Barker, Jorge Luis Borges and Iris Murdoch. One of the most influential myth-makers of our time, a man who influenced not only literature, but also popular culture in general, the creator of the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu Mythos - Howard Phillips Lovecraft.