The Call of Cthulhu

During his lifetime, this writer did not publish a single book; after his death, he became a idol for both the mass reader and the discerning esthete, and an inexhaustible source of inspiration for the film and gaming industry; he... was called the "Edgar Allan Poe of the 20th century", a genius madman, and an adept of secret knowledge; his work is so unique that it required the creation of a separate subgenre; he was admired by Robert E. Howard and Clive Barker, Jorge Luis Borges and Iris Murdoch. One of the most influential myth-makers of modernity, a person who influenced not only literature but also mass culture as a whole, the creator of the "Necronomicon" and the "Cthulhu Mythos" — Howard Phillips Lovecraft.