I can’t vouch for her accuracy, but it’s an interesting rundown!: Wordcount for Lovecraft’s Favorite Words | The Arkham Archivist
The words were suggested to her. I’m surprised there’s only two instances of non-Euclidean though.
No “Hybrid”?
Dank is a great horror word.
Wow, he mentioned one of our posters here at the Dope(Yog Sothoth) 28 times? I didn’t realize he was that famous… 
How many 'unholy’s? I always thought that word was meant to have more of an impact when it was written.
I see “Amorphous” gets 19 hits.
Heh, there is a hairdressers in my city with the name “Amorphous”. I always laugh at just how inappropriate that is as the name of a hairdressers whenever I see it! 
I’d like to see it normalized: “Hideous”, for instance, is the most common of those words, but it’s also a word that one encounters relatively often in ordinary discourse. To use the extreme example, his most-used words were probably “and” and “the”, just like anyone else.
What I’d like to see would be, for every word, to take the ratio of its abundance in Lovecraft’s works to its abundance in general usage. This would not only knock down common words like “hideous” a bit, but would also perhaps point out a few other uncommon words Lovecraft liked that the commenters didn’t happen to think of.
Yog Sothoth is one of the pieces in the recent boardgame A Study in Emerald. If you’re the player who controls Yog Sothoth, you can gain victory points by feeding the other characters you control to it.
In fact he based that character on me! But he spelled my name wrong… -_-;
Plot twist! Nobody can control Yog Sosoth!
May I suggest the short story that inspired the game, too? A wonderful Conan Doyle/Lovecraft mashup with a helluva twist: http://www.neilgaiman.com/mediafiles/exclusive/shortstories/emerald.pdf
Esquimaux. Degenerate Esquimaux, to be precise. Diabolic, too.
I, too, am surprised by the paucity of non-Euclidean. And interesting - old man Nyarlahotep is more popular that squidface. Guess he’s more personable, if a little too swarthy. And also, not sleeping.
I know right? Every time I hear another person say something is “dank,” it’s usually followed by a long discourse on about a certain dank thing will cure every disease except “Big Pharma” doesn’t want this to happen. It’s really frightening to get caught in conversation with this person.
Huh? Wait… Son of a gun! I will be clam-hanged! I’ve known you all this time, followed your posts, and never until now perceived that your name isn’t “Yog Sothoth!”
Excellent bit of fnord there, my dear sir! You hid your name behind a blind spot, where it simply cannot be seen! I doff my soul to you!
I’m kind of surprised “eldritch” isn’t a bigger hitter on that list…
Now it cannot be unseen
There is also a link at that chick’s site to download the compleat Lovecraft oeuvre in eBook format. Yummy!
The list makes me want to run some stats on my own writings and compare them.
I didn’t see what you did there.
It is spelled the same. Your human eyes just cannot perceive the alphabet with your limited receptors.
I wonder how many times the word “cyclopean” occurs outside Lovecraft’s writings (or someone copying his style). I’d be willing to bet he accounts for the majority of the instances of that word used in written English.