"N." - An H.P. Lovecraft/Cthulhu Mythos inspired work (and that's a good thing!)

[GNTLGNT]

I've always gotten a welcome shudder from the King's homages to the "Love-man", and "N" is one such tale that tips the pen to H.P. and Machen...(course, the letter Q scares the be-jeezus out of me too, that little tail-the horror, the horror...)

[Lencho_of_the_Apes]

Crouch End definitley has a touch of Lovecraft in it-the Goat with a Thousand Young, Yogsoggoth, Cthulhu Kryon, and of course the Drudic spelling of Towen insted of town are Lovecraftian to be sure
love,love, love this short story
it's in Nightmares and Dreamscapes
but i think even Lovecraft's ideas were influenced by earlier "dark" books, such as the Necronominon(sp)
don't know for sure, because i've never read it(necro)
just finished 2 Lovecraft books, though, and Just After Sunset after those(imagine that)
N. is King, dipped in Lovecraft, sitting on Freud's couch, telling a bedtime story
i always thought the short story Jerusalem's Lot, maybe in Night Shift was inspired by Lovecraft, too
the eater of the worms, the dark books the "evil" brother ordered, the town's unholy core, are totally him,
the ending is totally King, too
cliffhanger to the very end

The Necronomicon is not a real book, it's something Lovecraft made up. A fictional book that his fictional characters read and use. Lovecraft writes about what his influences were in his long essay "supernatural Horror In Literature", sort of his version of Danse Macabre.

We all float down here.

[arsepoetica]

I think the only way you could object to Lovecraft having an influence on Stephen King is by not being familiar with one or both of these great authors. It's like asking if Michael Jordan had an influence on Kobe Bryant or LeBron James.