hp lovecraft

Howard Philips Lovecraft was born in Providence, on the 20th August 1890, and the first 47 years of his life proceed much as usual, writing, poverty, cancer and all. Yet in this timeline, though the cancer proves a significant health scare, he survives through it nonetheless. In the year 1990 he...

So, after I made my Dracula DBWI it got me thinking about alternative trends in popular culture and here's the challenge I came up with: With a post-1900 POD make William Hope Hodgson's work fill Lovecraft's current cultural niche. Keep in mind that some sort of "Hodgson cycle" or what have you...

Robert E. Howard is one of the most unsung heroes of modern speculative fiction. The man pioneered modern fantasy with Conan the Barbarian and the Hyperborean Age, as well as charachters like Soloman Kane, Krull of Atlantis. He penned over a hundred stories across a range of genres, ranging...