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. ...
Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) was born in Providence, Rhode Island, where he spent most of his life. He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Philips. His father, a traveling salesman, developed mental illness and died in Butler Hospital, a psychiatric institut...
H.P Lovecraft, born in 1890 inRhode Island, was a sickly child growing up. He was raised solely by his mother and family after his father died from syphilis when Lovecraft was eight. One of his biggest influences was his grandfather, who loved tales of Gothic times and weird fantasy. Alt...
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...
Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on 20 August 1890. He never had the privilege of getting to know his father, because at the age of 3 he had to make peace with his father spending the rest of his natural life in a mental institution called Butler Hospital. Winfield Scott...
H.P. Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890 inProvidence, Rhode Island. His father, Winfield, suffered from a debilitating madness and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital. In 1898, Winfield died from “general paresis,” an old term for syphilis. This early stage of Lovecraft’s life in...
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born at 9 a.m. on August 20, 1890, at his family home at 454 (then numbered 194) Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother was Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, who could trace her ancestry to the arrival of George Phillips to Massachusetts in 1630...
By H. P. Lovecraft I. It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer. At first I shall be called a madman—madder than the man I shot in his cell at the Arkham Sanitarium. Later...
location. It was the best that moderate means could afford, and Harris hastened to move in before the birth of a fifth child which the family expected. That child, a boy, came in December; but was still-born. Nor was any child to be born alive in that house for a century and a ...
Celt’s far vision of weird and hidden things, but the logician’s quick eye for the outwardly unconvincing; an amalgam which had led him far afield in the forty-two years of his life, and set him in strange places for a Dublin University man born in a Georgian villa near Phoenix ...