Hitchcock would admit, “Psycho all came from Robert Bloch’s book.” Let sink in. Chiefly because Bloch managed to scare and chill the very master of suspense himself, Alfred Hitchcock, with his little novel Psycho. A writer whose name may not be easily recognized among even diehard genre fans, but his work is highly praised. Robert BlochĪmong the Lovecraft circle – as they were favorably called (pen pals and loyal fans of his dawning creativity) – was young Robert Bloch. In Needful Things, King takes the liberty to mention Yog Sothoth, a hellish entity straight out of the Mythos. Stephen King’s short story Jerusalem’s Lot shares many familiar hints and tones similar to Lovecraft’s.
That means we would not have a Pet Sematary to explore or Pennywise to fear! How dreadful! As we’ve already learned, we might not have had Stephen King otherwise. Had he not, our world would have been robbed of some very much needed chilling classics. Not only did he invent an entirely new – and seemingly never-ending – sub-genre, but he also gave many aspiring writers their own voices to be heard. Stephen King himself – a man of such colossal influence over the vast region of the written world – has humbly admitted that had there been no Lovecraft, there certainly would never have been any room for a Stephen King.Īnd that’s an aspect of Lovecraft’s career I find fascinating. Video games like Dead Space, Bloodborne, Quake, Amnesia: The Dark Descent, and Skyrim: Dragon Born all have the Mythos touch upon them. These are a few movies with the Lovecraftian influence on them.
An entire sub-genre exists now thanks to him.Īlien. So influential is Lovecraft’s contributions to the genre that we now use the term “Loveraftian” to describe something that strikes glaring similarities to the expert Mythos he invented. Yes, there were many before him who made a path through the dimension of fear, but he single-handedly reshaped the dark realm, firmly establishing the modern-day horror tale.
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