Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) has been a significant influence on some of the horror realm’s greatest authors and filmmakers, including Guillermo del Toro, Stephen King, and Sam Raimi… so why aren’t there more feature films based on Lovecraft’s works?
In order to get to the bottom of this, Nerdist turned to some honest-to-Azathoth experts in the works of Lovecraft, Sean Branney and Andrew Leman, co-founders and proprietors of the HP Lovecraft Historical Society.