Lovecraft is just the figurehead of a whole movement of post-Poe weird fiction writers from about the 1890s with the publication of "The Great God Pan" to about the end of the 1960s when Richard Sharpe Shaver stopped writing fiction. These guys made horror cosmic, either in a fantasy or science fiction mode, or both together. There were probably over a hundred of these writers altogether. Lovecraft didn't invent anything or do anything particularly well. He just epitomized a certain aesthetic and approach, and pulled the different strands together, so we call the trend Lovecraftian. It's just a handle, for convenience. Most of these guys wrote for pulp fiction magazines during the glory days before World War II when paper shortages killed that format. Since 1968, Lovecraft's legacy has kind of devoured the weird fiction genre to the point where a lot of the other writers have been pushed to the margins if not forgotten, and all the new entries are just Lovecraft pastiche. You'd be mistaken if you think that anyone knowledgeable thinks Lovecraft invented the genre.
Lovecraft ripped off Gogol
Chase Long
William Parker
>Viy (1834)
>Lovecraft born in 1890
>made by Nikolai Gogol when Lovecraft was 14
Jaxon Kelly
That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die.
Lincoln Reyes
lovecrap fags BTFO'd
Julian Cruz
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Brayden Morales
wtf is going on with that nigga's eyes?
Camden Brown
Hey can you give me some recommendations for good post-HPL weird fiction/horror?
Jace Green
That just reads like Gothic in general though. You need to read more.
Jason Sanchez
Every time he proves something by induction a new pair grows on top of the last one.
Thomas Stewart
Laird Barron, A Season in Carcosa (Anthology), various short stories by Ligotti, Robert Shearman.