PositiveNoise

Yeah. Lovecraft was one of the popular authors the creators of D&D had read. Sci-fi, fantasy, horror etc genres did not have tons of superstars in the 70s, so a lot of people were reading the same books/authors. It’s similar to how everyone had seen movies like Jason and the Argonauts.

Lovecraft was writing back in the 30’s, the same era of early Conan etc, but had become much more popular by the 70s.

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