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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: / ˈ l ʌ v k r æ f t /, UK: / ˈ l ʌ v k r ɑː f t /; 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 .
Mar 4, 2024 · The funeral of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, much like the now-renowned Edgar Allen Poe he cited as one off his greatest influences, was a solemn affair attended by no more than four people (some sources are more conservative and merely say two, one of which included his Aunt Annie).
It is likely that, as he saw death approaching, Lovecraft envisioned the ultimate oblivion of his work: he had never had a true book published in his lifetime (aside, perhaps, from the crudely issued The Shadow over Innsmouth [1936]), and his stories, essays, and poems were scattered in a bewildering number of amateur or pulp magazines.
Mar 25, 2024 · In July 1917, Howard Phillips Lovecraft of Providence, Rhode Island wrote a short story called ‘Dagon’. ‘If you don’t care for this,’ he wrote to one editor, ‘you won’t care for anything of mine.’.
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Mar 4, 2021 · Wikipedia. Public Domain. He Ghostwrote An Allegedly True Story For Harry Houdini. Lovecraft was asked by the editor of Weird Tales to ghostwrite a column for famous magician and escape artist Harry Houdini in 1924.
Jul 3, 2001 · Once and for all: the Necronomicon is fiction, pure fiction, invented by H. P. Lovecraft in his stories in the 1920s. There never was such a book, not nowhere, not no-how, before that. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) is recognized as one of the world masters of tales of the macabre.
May 15, 2024 · Robert Eggers changed aspects of the true story to create a hallucinatory narrative, drawing inspiration from Poe, Lovecraft, and more. Despite the surreal, otherwordly style of Robert Eggers' The Lighthouse , the film is loosely based on the true story of a pair of Welsh lighthouse keepers.
