Birth SignLeo BirthplaceProvidence,RI DEATH DATEMar 15,1937(age46) #51,889Most Popular Boost About American author of horror, fantasy, and Gothic fiction whose most famous works include The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow Out of Time, and At the Mountains of Madness. Though he died in poverty...
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’s themes, setting, and characters, creating a wider subject royal called the Lovecraftian Horror. Who Is H.P Lovecraft? Born on...
I do not believe it is possible to separate the man from his work: Lovecraft the man was afraid of nearly everything unfamiliar, and that discomfort – dread, really – of the “other” is what permeates and distinguishes the world view expressed in his fiction. As does every horror write...
With the death of Lovecraft’s father, the upbringing of the boy fell to his mother, his two aunts, and especially his grandfather, the prominent industrialist Whipple Van Buren Phillips. Lovecraft was a precocious youth: he was reciting poetry at age two, reading at age three, and writing ...
By H. P. Lovecraft From even the greatest of horrors irony is seldom absent. Sometimes it enters directly into the composition of the events, while sometimes it relates only to their fortuitous position among persons and places. The latter sort is splendidly exemplified by a case in the ...
Lovecraft’s father, Winfield, was admitted here in 1893 and remained until his death from “general paresis” (neurosyphilis) on 19 July 1898. In early 1919, Lovecraft’s mother had a nervous collapse and she entered the hospital on March 13. She died there on 24 May 1921—as the ...