He coined the term cosmicism (or, cosmic horror), and he was an inspiration to later horror writer,Stephen King. Family Life He was born in Rhode Island to jewelry salesman Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Phillips Lovecraft. He was briefly married toSonia Greeneduring the mid-1920s. ...
As a freelance writer, she spent most of her time in her apartment. When the sound had started she had hoped it would fade away on its own. When it got really bad, or what she then considered really bad, she played music to cover up the noise, but lately even that didn’t seem t...
H.P. Lovecraft is a fiction writer of the weird and interesting. Known for creating haunting creatures that stay with readers, he was also known...
Here is the complete list of books published by HP Lovecraft, a well-known American writer of horror fiction and weird fiction. H.P. Lovecraft is best known for his work on Cthulhu Mythos, which has inspired a large body of music, games, pastiches, and other media drawing on Lovecraft’...
There is no question that HP Lovecraft, influential writer of horror fiction and son of Providence, held views that were clearly racist, outdated outliers even by the standards of his time. My goal here is not to excuse his racism, but to place it in a context of Lovecraft as a human ...
(W) H. P. Lovecraft, Steve Philip Jones (A) Octavio Cariello, Wayne Reid (CA) Octavio Cariello Denys Barry is strongly convinced that telepathy is...
H.P. Lovecraft is a notoriously difficult writer to adapt for film. It’s arguably that the best adaptations of his work have been spiritual companion pieces like John Carpenter’sThe ThingorIn the Mouth of Madness. There are any number of reasons for this, such as the uncomfortable racism ...
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was a horror fiction writer whose work went unrecognized during his short, impoverished life (1890-1937). Since his death, however, he’s grown in literary stature to become, for many, second only to Edgar Allan Poe in that arena. He lived almost his entire life ...
Readers of horror fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft will recognize his influence in the story and plot ofAmnesia: The Dark Descent, which explores the idea of sanity through the character of Daniel who tries to stay sane while traversing a dark and foreboding (natch) castle. ...
H.P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) has, in the over sixty years since his death, become both a legend and an enigma. He has come to be regarded as the leading American writer of horror fiction in this century and continues to be a major influence upon the field today; but his life, work,...