In 1893, when Lovecraft was three, his father became acutely psychotic in a Chicago hotel room while on a business trip. This was unusually late in life, given the time period. His parents married, the first marriage for both, when they were in their thirties.

He was the only child of Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman of jewelry and precious metals, and Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, a woman who could trace her ancestry in America back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.

in his family home at 194 (now 454) Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. Lovecraft was born on the 20th of August 1890, at 9:00 a.m. However a word analysis of this story showed that it significantly deviates from Lovecraft's known corpus of text. Lovering, 'author of When The Earth Grew Cold and The Colour Out of Space, etc.', when publishing the story 'The Inevitable Conflict?'. He is sometime suspected of having used the pseudonym Paul H. His works were deeply pessimistic, fabricating a mythos that challenged the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christianity.Īlthough Lovecraft's readership was limited during his life, his reputation has grown over the decades, and he is now commonly regarded as one of the most influential horror writers of the 20th Century, exerting widespread and indirect influence, and frequently compared to Edgar Allan Poe in the tone of his writing style.

Lovecraft has become a cult figure for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-invalidating entities, as well as the famed Necronomicon, a grimoire of magical rites and forbidden lore. A key feature of many of his stories is the existence of powerful, extraterrestrial or supernatural entities that influence or threaten the human world in subtle ways, and whose mere perception by human observers often drives the latter to madness. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the basic premise of which is that the true workings of the universe are beyond human comprehension and that humanity's place in the cosmos is terrifyingly insignificant. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Aug– March 15, 1937), of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction. I am Providence, & Providence is myself-together, indissolubly as one, we stand thro’ the ages a fixt monument set aeternally in the shadow of Durfee’s ice-clad peak!

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