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The following essay is by Pete Rawlik, author of the upcoming Lovecraftian novel Reanimators. The term “Lovecraftian Horror” gets bandied about quite a bit, including by me, but what does it mean? How do we, (meaning I) define it? Some people use it interchangeably with “Cthulhu Mythos” or “Cosmic Horror”, but to me this is sloppy,…