For 10 points, name this author of "The Whisperer in Darkness" who wrote about an octopus-like monster in "The Call of Cthulhu."
In a story by this author, an earthquake that strikes on the night of February 28th causes many poets and artists to have a similar, recurring dream. A book about this man, subtitled "Against the World, Against Life," was written by Michel Houellebecq. He wrote a story whose narrator is shocked to discover a phony face and hands placed on a cloak the day after his friend showed him a (*) brain in a cylinder and laid out the merits of taking an extraterrestrial journey. In a story by this man, Francis Thurston links a sculptor's descriptions of Cyclopean masonry to a Louisiana cult, leading him to a manuscript where he reads about the corpse-city of R'lyeh. For 10 points, name this author of "The Whisperer in Darkness" who wrote about an octopus-like monster in "The Call of Cthulhu."
In a story by this author, an earthquake that strikes on the night of February 28th causes many poets and artists to have a similar, recurring dream.
H.P. Lovecraft [or Howard Phillips Lovecraft]