Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown

Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown
Directed by	Frank H. Woodward
Produced by	William Janczewski James B. Myers Frank H. Woodward
Starring	Ramsey Campbell John Carpenter Guillermo del Toro Neil Gaiman Stuart Gordon S. T. Joshi Caitlin R. Kiernan Andrew Migliore Robert M. Price Peter Straub
Cinematography	Don Spiro
Release dates	July 24, 2008 (2008-07-24) (Comic-Con)
Running time	90 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Lovecraft's Fear of the Unknown is a 2008 documentary film that looks at the life, work and mind behind the Cthulhu Mythos, writer H. P. Lovecraft.^[1]

The film features interviews with Guillermo del Toro, Neil Gaiman, John Carpenter, Peter Straub, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Ramsey Campbell, Stuart Gordon, S. T. Joshi, Robert M. Price and Andrew Migliore.

The film won Best Documentary at the 2008 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival. It was the official selection at: Cinema Du Parc in Collaboration With The Fantasia Festival 2008; Erie Horror Film Festival 2008; Buenos Aires Rojo Sangre Festival 2008; Shriekfest Horror Film Festival 2008; The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival 2008; TromaDance 2009 and Porto Alegre, Brazil's Fantaspoa Festival 2009.

The film was released on Blu-ray and DVD in the United States on 27 October 2009.

References

↑ "Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown". The New York Times.

External links

H. P. Lovecraft

Works	List of works Dream Cycle

Locations	Arkham Dunwich Innsmouth Kingsport Miskatonic University Miskatonic River Lovecraft Country R'lyeh The Nameless City Yuggoth

Characters	Abdul Alhazred Robert Harrison Blake Randolph Carter Kuranes Herbert West

Cthulhu Mythos deities	Azathoth Cthulhu Ghatanothoa Hypnos Nodens Nyarlathotep Shub-Niggurath Tsathoggua Yog-Sothoth

Cthulhu Mythos species	Colour out of space Deep Ones Dholes Elder Things Flying polyps Great Race of Yith Hunting Horrors Men of Leng Mi-go Moon-beasts Nightgaunts Serpent Men Shantaks Shoggoth

Books about Lovecraft	H. P. Lovecraft: A Life H. P. Lovecraft: Against the World, Against Life An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia Howard Phillips Lovecraft: Dreamer on the Nightside Lovecraft: A Biography Lovecraft: A Look Behind the Cthulhu Mythos Lurker in the Lobby: The Guide to the Cinema of H. P. Lovecraft

Legacy and influence	Cthulhu Mythos Cthulhu Mythos in popular culture Lovecraftian horror Cosmicism Weird fiction

Related	Extraterrestrial places in the Cthulhu Mythos Books in the Cthulhu Mythos Cthulhu Mythos cults Necronomicon Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown (documentary) Kalem Club

Family	Sonia Greene (wife) Whipple Van Buren Phillips (grandfather)

Works of H. P. Lovecraft

Cthulhu Mythos Dream Cycle

Novellas	The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath The Case of Charles Dexter Ward The Whisperer in Darkness At the Mountains of Madness The Shadow over Innsmouth The Shadow Out of Time

Short stories	"The Tomb" "Dagon" "A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson" "Polaris" "Beyond the Wall of Sleep" "Memory" "Old Bugs" "The Transition of Juan Romero" "The White Ship" "The Street" "The Doom that Came to Sarnath" "The Statement of Randolph Carter" "The Terrible Old Man" "The Tree" "The Cats of Ulthar" "The Temple" "Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family" "Celephaïs" "From Beyond" "Nyarlathotep" "The Picture in the House" "Ex Oblivione" "Sweet Ermengarde" "The Nameless City" "The Quest of Iranon" "The Moon-Bog" "The Outsider" "The Other Gods" "The Music of Erich Zann" "Herbert West–Reanimator" "Hypnos" "What the Moon Brings" "Azathoth" "The Hound" "The Lurking Fear" "The Rats in the Walls" "The Unnamable" "The Festival" "The Shunned House" "The Horror at Red Hook" "He" "In the Vault" "Cool Air" "The Call of Cthulhu" "Pickman's Model" "The Silver Key" "The Strange High House in the Mist" "The Colour Out of Space" "The Descendant" "History of the Necronomicon" "The Very Old Folk" "Ibid" "The Dunwich Horror" "The Dreams in the Witch House" "The Thing on the Doorstep" "The Evil Clergyman" "The Book" "The Haunter of the Dark"

Collaborations	"The Green Meadow" "The Crawling Chaos" "The Horror at Martin's Beach" "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" "The Curse of Yig" "The Mound" "Medusa's Coil" "The Horror in the Museum" "Through the Gates of the Silver Key" "Out of the Aeons" "The Tree on the Hill" "Till A’the Seas" "In the Walls of Eryx" "The Thing in the Moonlight"

Juvenilia	"The Mystery of the Grave-Yard" "The Beast in the Cave" "The Alchemist"

Poetry	Fungi from Yuggoth

Essays	Supernatural Horror in Literature To Quebec and the Stars

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