In a 46-year lifetime H. P. Lovecraft wrote or collaborated on more than 65 stories, penned dozens of articles and essays, and hundreds of poems, and wrote perhaps as many as 100,000 letters.
Lovecraft enjoyed little success during his lifetime. It was through publication in amateur magazines and later in Weird Tales that Lovecraft met other authors of the macabre tale.
The1940s and '50s saw an expansion of the Mythos. It was August Derleth who contributed the most, producing a number of original tales as well as posthumous collaborations based on Lovecraft's story notes.
H.P. Lovecraft once wrote: "All my tales are based upon the fundamental premise that common human laws and interests and emotions have no validity or significance in the vast cosmos-at-large.”
