Howard Phillips Lovecraft
The finest modern master of weird fiction since Poe, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) had less than auspicious origins. Born in Rhode Island, where he spent most of his forty-six years, Lovecraft was only two when his father died in a mental home, and he himself was none too robust as a child. Due to "headaches" and other ailments, Lovecraft missed a lot of school, and only managed to complete two-and-a-half years of high school (where he discovered Poe and developed a lifelong interest in the sciences) before a "nervous collapse" forced him to withdraw. Read more about H.P. Lovecraft ...
Early in his writing career, just after World War I, H.P. Lovecraft recognized that, in an increasingly technological world based on science, the old horror story themes (ghosts, witches, vampires, werewolves, demons, and the like) just wouldn't do any longer. For, by the 1920's, many readers had become too realistic, too skeptical, to "believe" in them anymore. So something new was needed. Some kind of hybrid supernatural tale combining eerie chills with scientific plausibility. And that's exactly what Lovecraft came up with in his "Mythos" stories, many of which (between the 1920's and 1930's) first appeared in the now legendary pulp magazine WEIRD TALES. Read more about HP Lovecrafts Mythos...
- A Subtler Magick: The Writings and Philosophy of H.P. Lovecraft
- At the Mountains of Madness
- Cthulhu 2000
- Discovering H.P. Lovecraft
- Medusa: A Portrait
- Supernatural Horror in Literature
- Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
- Tales of the Lovecraft Mythos
- The Doom That Came to Sarnath
- The Dream Cycle of H.P. Lovecraft
- The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
- The New Lovecraft Circle
- The Road to Madness
- The Tomb and Other Tales
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