Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Earth-1218)

Professional History

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American author specializing in the genre of "weird fiction".

He is most widely recognized for creating a pantheon of cosmic beings commonly known as the "Great Old Ones".

Lovecraft's work has been adapted several times in various Marvel Comics projects, most recently in the 2008 series Haunt of Horror: Lovecraft.

Lovecraft's work has laid the groundwork for many other characters and work of fiction. Doctor Strange villain Shuma-Gorath was inspired by the Lovecraft creation Shub Niggurath.^{[citation needed]}

Lovecraft has been established to exist in Marvel universes, and to have wrote about certain entities that exist within those universes (It isn't revealed how he came in knowledge of those creatures, or if other H.P. Lovecraft's material in the Earth-1218 universe were also documented by those counterparts):
- In Earth-616, Thunderbolts Annual Vol 2 #1 (December 18, 2013) established that Lovecraft wrote about the True Faeries, refered to as Old Ones.
- In Earth-1610, Ultimate Fantastic Four #31 (August, 2006) established that Lovecraft wrote about the great old ones, including Zvilpogghua, the Feaster from the Stars.
  
  The reclusive scholar of Providence
Robert Bloch wrote "The Shambler From the Stars" (adapted in Journey into Mystery Vol 2 #3; February, 1973) in which he had a reclusive scholar living in Providence, based on Lovecraft, killed. Lovecraft replied with "The Haunter of the Dark" (adapted in Journey into Mystery Vol 2 #4; April, 1973), in which Robert Blake, based on Robert Bloch, was killed as well.
- Robert wrote a third sequence, "The Shadow From the Steeple" (September, 1950), in which Howard Phillips Lovecraft appeared, and died. The story was adapted in Journey into Mystery Vol 2 #5 (June, 1973), in which the character was renamed Howard Phillips.

The central author of the Cthulhu Mythos, Lovecraft is himself a character within the Mythos, mentioned in "Beyond the Treshold" (1941) and "The Dweller in Darkness", stories by August Derleth, as as an author existing within the Mythos' universe.