10 Prolific Figures Heavily Influenced By H.P. Lovecraft

Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine philosophical writer likely best known for his short story collection, Ficciones, and his influences on Modernism. The author’s 1975 short story, There Are More Things, proved to be his ode to Lovecraft.

The story, dedicated to “the memory of H.P. Lovecraft”, deals with plot devices like Eldritch-inspired creatures and human curiosity being the undoing of sanity.

Thematically, the authors wrote very similarly; both wrote of people in a largely uncaring universe with fantastical elements often in first-person without many female characters. Part of this was likely a product of the times they wrote in, but the two lived across the globe from one another, Lovecraft in New England and Borges in Buenos Aires.

Nonetheless, the two both formed vast mythos with their work and dealt with similar themes, Borges having written several short stories dealing with human imagination and higher powers.