Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) — known as H. P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's guiding aesthetic and philosophical principle was what he termed "cosmicism" or "cosmic horror", the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally inimical to the interests of humankind. As such...
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Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1890
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1937 (age 46 years)
Country of nationality:
Also known as:
- Howard Philips Lovecraft,
- Lewis Theobald,
- Humphrey Littlewit,
- Ward Phillips,
- Edward Softly,
- Albert Frederick Willie,
- Ames Dorrance Rowley,
- C. M. Eddy, Jr.,
- Harry Houdini,
- Hazel Heald,
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft,
- John J. Jones,
- Lewis Theobald, Jr.,
- Sonia H. Greene,
- Zealia Bishop,
- Zealia Brown Reed,
- H. P Lovecraft,
- H. P. Lovecraft,
- Lovecraft, H.P.
