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    12 days ago

    Many authors cited each other works in their stories, this helped the mythos growing in the first place. Also, no work is born from nothing, read some stories of William Hope Hodgson or Algernon Blackwood. Lovecraft describe both as great inspiration and among his favourite authors

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      11 days ago

      Two other great influental authors. Especially “The Willows” of A.Blackwood and “The House on the Borderland” of W.H.Hodgson