Lovecraftian horror is a subgenre of horror that explores the terror of the unknown. It has fascinated audiences and inspired filmmakers for decades and is named after the writer H.

A new film adaptation of Stephen King’s ‘Salem’s Lot’ swaps in an owl for the book’s haunting whip-poor-wills, showing how species loss is also tied into cultural loss.

Click here to view this embed. Based on a story by horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, “The Dunwich Horror” is a cult-classic horror film starring Sandra Lee (“A Summer Place”) and Dean ...

Perhaps the best known whip-poor-wills in American horror appear in H.P. Lovecraft’s novella “The Dunwich Horror.” Lovecraft references the species nearly two dozen times in his story ...

Perhaps the best known whip-poor-wills in American horror appear in H.P. Lovecraft's novella "The Dunwich Horror." Lovecraft references the species nearly two dozen times in his story, with the ...

Perhaps the best known whip-poor-wills in American horror appear in H.P. Lovecraft's novella The Dunwich Horror. Lovecraft references the species nearly two dozen times in his story, with the ...

Perhaps the best known whip-poor-wills in American horror appear in H.P. Lovecraft’s novella “The Dunwich Horror.” Lovecraft references the species nearly two dozen times in his story ...

In junior high, I made the happy thrift-store discovery of three key volumes for any nascent horror aficionado ... Heat” and H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror.” If you are lucky ...