Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of horror, fantasy, and science fiction, known then simply as weird fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror, the idea that life is incomprehensible to human minds and that the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity. Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulh...
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Date of birth:
- Aug 20, 1890
Date of death:
- Mar 15, 1937 (age 46 years)
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Also known as:
- H.P. Lovecraft,
- Albert Frederick Willie,
- Ames Dorrance Rowley,
- C. M. Eddy, Jr.,
- Harry Houdini,
- Hazel Heald,
- Howard Phillips Lovecraft,
- John J. Jones,
- Lewis Theobald,
- Lewis Theobald, Jr.,
- Sonia H. Greene,
- Ward Phillips,
- Zealia Bishop,
- Zealia Brown Reed,
- H. P Lovecraft
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