Howard phillips lovecraft is beginning to emerge as one of that tumultuous periods most critically fascinating and yet enigmatic figures writes alan moore but at the time of his death lovecraft was maligned by critics and ignored by the public leslie s klinger reanimates lovecraft and charts the rise of the pulp writer lovecrafts vast body of work a mythos in which humanity is a blissfully unaware speck in a cosmos shared by ancient alien beings is increasingly being recognised as the