H.P. Lovecraft is one ... Show creator and writer Nic Pizzolatto based it on Robert W. Chambers' 1895 book 'The King in Yellow,' which inspired Lovecraft's Hastur in Cthulhu Mythos.

Another cult writer not afraid to court controversy ... Houellebecq’s first published work was an analysis of the life and work of H. P. Lovecraft called Against the World, Against Life, but ...

Cult director John Carpenter also claimed to have used the writer as a source ... than Kanye West has an H.P. connection. Sort of. Author Joshua Chaplinsky reimagined Lovecraft’s Re-animator ...