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- Full name: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Born: August 20, 1890
- Died: March 15, 1937
- Famous fictional locations: Miskatonic University, Arkham, Massachusetts
- Created a cult following with his Cthulhu Mythos
- Wrote volumes worth of letters to various correspondents collectively known as "the Lovecraft Circle"
- Wrote under more than ten different pseudonyms
- Was not well-known during his lifetime
- Inspired the name for the American psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft
- Imaginatively macabre style often garners comparisons to poet Edgar Allan Poe
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H. P. Lovecraft was an American author during the early 1900s. Although he was a prolific writer published both poetry and scientific articles, he is best remembered for his macabre fantasy, horror and science fiction. These works often dealt with issues of psychology, the division between sanity and insanity, and the supernatural world. He was the creator of the Cthulhu mythos, a series of stories which detailed an ancient demon that threatened to destroy humanity, and the cult dedicated to it.
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H. P. Lovecraft was an American author during the early 1900s. Although he was a prolific writer published both poetry and scientific articles, he is best remembered for his macabre fantasy, horror and science fiction. These works often dealt with issues of psychology, the division between sanity and insanity, and the supernatural world. He was the creator of the Cthulhu mythos, a series of stories which detailed an ancient demon that threatened to destroy humanity, and the cult dedicated to it.
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H. P. Lovecraft Questions
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Fast Facts
- Full name: Howard Phillips Lovecraft
- Born: August 20, 1890
- Died: March 15, 1937
- Famous fictional locations: Miskatonic University, Arkham, Massachusetts
- Created a cult following with his Cthulhu Mythos
- Wrote volumes worth of letters to various correspondents collectively known as "the Lovecraft Circle"
- Wrote under more than ten different pseudonyms
- Was not well-known during his lifetime
- Inspired the name for the American psychedelic rock band H. P. Lovecraft
- Imaginatively macabre style often garners comparisons to poet Edgar Allan Poe
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H. P. Lovecraft Timeline
- August 20, 1890: Born in Providence, Rhode Island
- 1908-1913: A wide collection of poems
- 1914: Joined UAPA
- 1917: The Tomb
- 1919: Dagon
- 1921: The Nameless City
- 1922: Herbert West-Reanimator
- 1924: Marries Sonia Greene
- 1926: The Call of Cthlhu
- 1927: The Colour Out of Space
- 1929: The Shadow Over Innsmouth, At the Mountains of Madness
- 1933: Dreams in the Witch House
- 1936: The Dunwich Horror, The Shadow Out of Time
- 1937: The Thing on the Doorstep
- March 15, 1937: Dies
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Notable H. P. Lovecraft Films
- The H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival
- IMDb: H. P. Lovecraft Filmography
- Note: The majority of the links in this timeline are to IMDb, which has pop-ups.
- 1965: Die, Monster, Die
- 1970: The Dunwich Horror
- 1985: Re-Animator
- 1988: The Unnamable
- 1993: The Necrinomicon
- 1999: Return to Innsmouth
- 2001: Dagon
- 2005: Call of Cthulhu | Masters of Horror: Dreams in the Witch House
- 2006: Beyond the Walls of Sleep
- 2007: Cthulhu



