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Born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island, H.P Lovecraft was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan [née Phillips] Lovecraft. Lovecraft was a sickly child growing up with an unusual childhood because of his father, who had a type of mental disorder caused b...
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 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 ancien...