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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: / ˈlʌvkræft /, UK: / ˈlʌvkrɑːft /; August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. [a] Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England.
Aug 16, 2024 · H.P. Lovecraft (born August 20, 1890, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S.—died March 15, 1937, Providence) was an American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror.
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His Study has information on biographies, literary criticism, bibliographies, periodicals, and online articles; Popular Culture details the movies, games, music, and art based on Lovecraft’s works, as well as the “Cthulhu Mythos”;
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- March 15, 1937
- August 20, 1890
- The Call of Cthulhu.
- The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft, S.T. Joshi (Editor)
- At the Mountains of Madness.
- The Best of H.P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre by H.P. Lovecraft, August Derleth (Editor), Robert Bloch (Introduction)
Apr 2, 2014 · Horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft wrote short stories, novels and novellas, including 'The Call of Cthulhu' and 'The Case of Charles Dexter Ward.'
These pages provide alphabetical and chronological lists of Lovecraft’s writings, links to purchase collections of them, and also electronic texts of many of those writings. Electronic Texts A complete list of all the electronic texts of Lovecraft’s writings available on The H.P. Lovecraft Archive.
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.
