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H.P. Lovecraft
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Who Was H.P. Lovecraft?
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Early Life
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by S.T. Joshi
H.P. Lovecraft Centennial Guidebook
and appears here with S.T. Joshi’s permission.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born at 9 a.m. on August 20, , at his family home at (then numbered ) Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. His mother was Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, who could trace her ancestry to the arrival of George Phillips to Massachusetts in His father was Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman for Gorham & Co., Silversmiths, of Providence. When Lovecraft was three his father suffered a nervous breakdown in a hotel room in Chicago and was brought back to Butler Hospital, where he remained for five years before dying on July 19, Lovecraft was apparently informed that his father was paralyzed and comatose during this period, but the surviving evidence suggests that this was not the case; it is nearly certain that Lovecraft’s father died of paresis, a form of neurosyphilis.
With the death of Lovecraft’s father, the upbringing of the boy fell to his mother, his two aunts, and especially his grandfather, the prominent industrialist Whipple Van Buren Phillips. Lovecraft was a precocious youth: he was reciting poetry at age two, reading at age three, and writing at age six or seven. H
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H. P. Lovecraft
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| Born | Howard Phillips Lovecraft ()August 20, Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Died | March 15, () (aged&#;46) Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. |
| Resting place | Swan Point Cemetery, Providence 41°51′14″N71°22′52″W / °N °W / ; |
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| Genre | Lovecraftian horror, dark fantasy, weird fiction, horror fiction, mythopoeia, science fiction, gothic fiction, fantasy |
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (, ; August 20, – March 15, ) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos.[a]
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in , he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. Lovecraft then lived with his mother, in reduced financial