Myths of Cthulhu. The entire universe created by the greatest visionary writer of the first half of the 20th century Howard Phillips Lovecraft A universe where the path between the human world and the world of the Great Ancients unknowable eternal beings imbued with boundless malice (or utter indifference?) to mortals is open almost constantly. A universe where there is a constant struggle between Light and Darkness For there are numbers to the Dark Gods, and great is the power of Cthulhu. Listen, and you will hear his voice. This voice sounded in the ears of many talented writers - Robert Irwin Howard and Clark Ashton Smith. Auguste Derleth and Lin Carter , Henry Kuttner and Alan Dean Foster , Colin Wilson and Ramsey Campbell , Robert Bloch and Thomas Ligotty , Stephen King and Neil Gaiman , But few of them were able to convey what they had heard so fully ,. As a recognized master of horror literature , World Fantasy Award and Bram Stoker Award for services to the genre Brian Lumley .