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hp
1H.P.
2abbreviation
Electricity., high power.
high pressure.
horsepower.
HP
abbreviation
hire-purchase
horsepower
high pressure
(in Britain) Houses of Parliament
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In his most famous work, “The Call of Cthulhu,” science fiction writer H.P.
Where the monsters of “Monsters” are all recognizably human, “Grotesquerie” suggests something more cosmic at work, like a darkness summoned in a story by horror master H.P.
This haunted house is inspired by the horror fiction writer H.P.
Public Library; Clark Ashton Smith’s letters to his fellow horror writer H.P.
And with our epochal rains, some of these old bodies have risen to assert themselves again, which sounds like something out of H.P.
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