Recalling Cthulhu: How HP Lovecraft Has Shaped Pop Culture

Guest: Carl Sederholm, Department Chair, Comparative Arts and Letters, Professor of Comparative Arts and Letters, BYU When you binged Stranger Things on Netflix, you probably didn’t know that much of it was inspired by an obscure 1930s pulp fiction writer named H.P. Lovecraft. The writer was not at all successful during his life, but he’s since become an icon of all that’s weird and creepy. Stephen King has called HP Lovecraft the “twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale.”