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Story Ideas from H.P. Lovecraft
By Deb Gallardo
I discovered a post that lists H.P. Lovecraft’s story ideas which he never got around to writing. For those of you unfamiliar with Lovecraft, Wikipedia says this about him: “Lovecraft’s major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien.”
Of this list, Lovecraft himself has this to say:
This book consists of ideas, images, & quotations hastily jotted down for possible future use in weird fiction. Very few are actually developed plots—for the most part they are merely suggestions or random impressions designed to set the memory or imagination working. Their sources are various—dreams, things read, casual incidents, idle conceptions, & so on.
Here is the dedication (apparently) and the first 3 ideas on the list:
“Presented to R. H. Barlow, Esq., on May 7, 1934—in exchange for an admirably neat typed copy from his skilled hand.
1 Demophon shivered when the sun shone upon him. (Lover of darkness = ignorance.)
2 Inhabitants of Zinge, over whom the star Canopus rises every night, are always gay and without sorrow. [x]
3 The shores of Attica respond in song to the waves of the Aegean. [x]“
Read the complete list of Lovecraft’s story ideas here.
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