Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown Trailer

Trailer for the award-winning documentary "Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown" from Wyrd Studios, released globally by Cinevolve Studios.

Winner: Best Documentary, COMIC CON 2008

H.P. Lovecraft was the forefather of modern horror fiction, having inspired such writers as Stephen King, influencing films such as Alien and Hellboy, and in music, Metallica and Iron Maiden.

What led an Old World, xenophobic gentleman to create one of literature's most far-reaching mythologies? What attracts even the minds of the 21st century to these stories of unspeakable abominations and cosmic gods? Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown is a chronicle of the life, work and mind that created these weird tales as told by many of today's luminaries of dark fantasy including John Carpenter (The Thing), Guillermo Del Toro (Pan's Labyrinth), Neil Gaiman (Coraline), Stuart Gordon (Re-Animator), Caitlin Kiernan (Daughter of Hounds) and Peter Straub (Ghost Story).

Available on Blu-ray and DVD from Cinevolve Studios. www.cinevolvestudios.com

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[bosleyharcourt]

I would have to put Clark Ashton Smith a notch above Lovecraft. His exquisite mastery of language to convey fear, wonder and elaborate otherworldly realms is unmatched IMO.

[luvkrafft]

Robert E Howard and Clark Ashton Smith also deserve recognition for being pillars in their fantasy fields around the same time as HPL. But for sheer terror and complexity, HPL remains above the fold.