Lovecraft was all about the monsters.
Lovecraft, Necronomicon: description.
Lovecraft pictured himself as a bewigged eighteenth-century English gentleman, and he
wrote like one.
From 1923 on, most of Lovecraft's short stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
And yet Lovecraft died in poverty,
almost unknown, never having published a single book in his lifetime.
From 1917 until his death in 1937, Lovecraft wrote hundreds of poems, short stories, and essays.
Lovecraft made almost no money from his fiction
and supplemented his meager earnings by editing and ghostwriting.
The name Cthulhu, Lovecraft explained, was“a fumbling human attempt
to catch the phonetics of an absolutely non-human word.”.
Lovecraft's work traditionally features humans catching
glimpses of a bigger universe our minds were never built to comprehend.
In the midst of his bleakest financial woes, Lovecraft was known to go without food so
he could afford postage.
Nearly 80 years after his death, H. P. Lovecraft is considered one of the most influential horror writers of all time.
Though his employment is hard to discern, Lovecraft's future wife, Sonia Greene,
stated that Winfield was employed by Gorham Manufacturing Company as a traveling salesman.
Even if you have never read Lovecraft, you may have seen one of his stories
adapted into a cheesy horror movie(Reanimator, Splatterhouse, most Roger Corman films).
Apart from two years in Brooklyn,
New York(which he found very unpleasant), Lovecraft spent his entire life in Providence,
Rhode Island, where he was born in 1890.
Behold the odd tale of horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, whose ghastly creations have terrorized readers for a century-
and are now popping up in Facebook feeds.
Now, a new discovery reveals the existence of a very, very peculiar creature from Earth's past,
and it's drawing comparisons to an evil entity from the mind of H.P. Lovecraft.
Though he never made a dime from it, Lovecraft had encouraged other writers to use his characters(like Cthulhu)
and settings(like Arkham, a fictional city in Massachusetts featured in many Lovecraft stories) in their works.
If you have ever wanted to dip a toe into this universe but never knew where to start,
we have compiled a list of Lovecraft's best, weirdest,
and most iconic tales to keep you up at night, questioning the nature of what's real and what's just your imagination.