Seppo Albert Kivinen (19 October 1933, in Ikaalinen - 13 August 2021) was a Finnish author and doctor of philosophy and docent emeritus of University of Helsinki,[1] known for his occult interests and study of monsters.
He is a onetime winner of the Atorox Award for best Finnish short story, for his Lovecraftian pastiche Keskiyön Mato Ikaalisissa.
Kivinen is a well known fixture in Finnish academia and a proponent of the study of the history of the occult with a sceptical bent.
Besides his writings based on the mythos created by H. P. Lovecraft, he has also recorded politico-philosophic songs even with the co-operation of such notable Finnish artists as M. A. Numminen.
Kivinen has in his study of ontology researched the problem of universality, and has set himself on a stance of realism, and a notion of "ontic communism", which he puts into words in the form of "There are many individuals in the world.