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H. P. Lovecraft

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H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was an American author of science fiction and horror stories. Born in Providence, Rhode Island to a wealthy family, he suffered the loss of his father at a young age. Raised with his mother’s family, he was doted upon throughout his youth and found a paternal figure in his grandfather Whipple, who encouraged his literary interests. He began writing stories and poems inspired by the classics and by Whipple’s spirited retellings of Gothic tales of terror. In 1902, he began publishing a periodical on astronomy, a source of intellectual fascination for the young Lovecraft. Over the next several years, he would suffer from a series of illnesses that made it nearly impossible to attend school. Exacerbated by the decline of his family’s financial stability, this decade would prove formative to Lovecraft’s worldview and writing style, both of which depict humanity as cosmologically insignificant. Supported by his mother Susie in his attempts to study organic chemistry, Lovecraft eventually devoted himself to writing poems and stories for such pulp and weird-fiction magazines as Argosy, where he gained a cult following of readers. Early stories of note include “The Alchemist” (1916), “The Tomb” (1917), and “Beyond the Wall of Sleep” (1919). “The Call of Cthulu,” originally published in pulp magazine Weird Tales in 1928, is considered by many scholars and fellow writers to be his finest, most complex work of fiction. Inspired by the works of Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Machen, Algernon Blackwood, and Lord Dunsany, Lovecraft became one of the century’s leading horror writers whose influence remains essential to the genre.

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An H. P. Lovecraft Anthology book cover

An H. P. Lovecraft Anthology

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En las montañas de la locura book cover

En las montañas de la locura

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En las montañas de la locura / At the Mountains of Madness book cover

En las montañas de la locura / At the Mountains of Madness

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H. P. Lovecraft

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Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird book cover

Weird Tales: 100 Years of Weird

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La llamada de Cthulhu - El horror de Dunwich / The Call of Cthulhu - The Dunwich Horror book cover

La llamada de Cthulhu - El horror de Dunwich / The Call of Cthulhu - The Dunwich Horror

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La llamada de Cthulhu - El horror de Dunwich book cover

La llamada de Cthulhu - El horror de Dunwich

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Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho book cover

Ann Radcliffe's The Mysteries of Udolpho

Ann Radcliffe
Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest book cover

Ann Radcliffe's The Romance of the Forest

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Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance book cover

Ann Radcliffe's A Sicilian Romance

Ann Radcliffe
At the Mountains of Madness book cover

At the Mountains of Madness

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El caso de Charles Dexter Ward - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward book cover

El caso de Charles Dexter Ward - The Case of Charles Dexter Ward

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El caso de Charles Dexter Ward book cover

El caso de Charles Dexter Ward

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Pickman's Model book cover

Pickman's Model

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H. P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror book cover

H. P. Lovecraft: Tales of Horror

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The Temple book cover

The Temple

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The Festival book cover

The Festival

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Weird and Horrific Stories book cover

Weird and Horrific Stories

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Weird Tales: Best of the Early Years 1926-27 book cover

Weird Tales: Best of the Early Years 1926-27

Jonathan Maberry
The Whisperer in Darkness book cover

The Whisperer in Darkness

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