American writer who invented cosmic horror — the genre in which the universe is governed by vast, indifferent, incomprehensible forces before which human civilization is utterly insignificant — creating the Cthulhu Mythos and a body of short fiction that transformed horror literature.
Created cosmic indifferentism as a literary philosophy — Lovecraft's horror is not supernatural (evil spirits, demonic forces) but epistemological (the universe is genuinely indifferent to human existence and incomprehensible to human reason) — making his work a response to the materialist implications of modern science.
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