Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of horror fiction; born in Providence, Rhode Island, the 20th of November of 1890; same city where he eventually died.
Was the only child of a merchant, Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Phillips. His father died on 1895, causing that he and his mother moved with his grandfather. Of his childhood is known that he was constantly sick and had frequently terrible nightmares, maybe one of the first sources of inspiration for his histories, also because of the oppressive education provided by his mother he turned himself into a frail kid who overturne his fears and traumas in new stories and characters besides his preferred ones belonging to his favourite authors, like Poe, Bierce and Lord …show more content…
Lately he couldn’t finish his studies because an increase of his nervous attacks that caused him to leave the school. This fact emphasized his withdrawal and introversion, making him avoid contact with people for really long periods where he focused on writing poetry and stories.
Finally, when he started to be literary acknowledged by his histories published on “Weird Tales” his character also suffered some changes, turning into someone more open to human contact. During this period had a deep friendship with a small circle, called the “circle of Lovecraft” later, among them was Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap and Robert Bloch, with whom he kept contact by letter.
On 1921 his mother passed away in the same hospital that his father, and three years later, on 1924 got married with Sonia Haft Greene with whom lived in New York but only for two years, after a divorce he went back to Providence to live with his aunts, almost ten years later he died, being buried in Swan Point in the same city.
Woks like “The call of Cthulu”, “The mountains of madness” or “The Dunwich horror” are the most known but not the only ones, there’s also the “Necronomicon” allegedly written by an Arab called Abdul Alhazred, describing rituals and invocations of creatures. Even if he wasn’t recognise deeply in life, on his dead he started to be more known and his works spread widely around the
Was the only child of a merchant, Winfield Scott Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Phillips. His father died on 1895, causing that he and his mother moved with his grandfather. Of his childhood is known that he was constantly sick and had frequently terrible nightmares, maybe one of the first sources of inspiration for his histories, also because of the oppressive education provided by his mother he turned himself into a frail kid who overturne his fears and traumas in new stories and characters besides his preferred ones belonging to his favourite authors, like Poe, Bierce and Lord …show more content…
Lately he couldn’t finish his studies because an increase of his nervous attacks that caused him to leave the school. This fact emphasized his withdrawal and introversion, making him avoid contact with people for really long periods where he focused on writing poetry and stories.
Finally, when he started to be literary acknowledged by his histories published on “Weird Tales” his character also suffered some changes, turning into someone more open to human contact. During this period had a deep friendship with a small circle, called the “circle of Lovecraft” later, among them was Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, Donald Wandrei, Frank Belknap and Robert Bloch, with whom he kept contact by letter.
On 1921 his mother passed away in the same hospital that his father, and three years later, on 1924 got married with Sonia Haft Greene with whom lived in New York but only for two years, after a divorce he went back to Providence to live with his aunts, almost ten years later he died, being buried in Swan Point in the same city.
Woks like “The call of Cthulu”, “The mountains of madness” or “The Dunwich horror” are the most known but not the only ones, there’s also the “Necronomicon” allegedly written by an Arab called Abdul Alhazred, describing rituals and invocations of creatures. Even if he wasn’t recognise deeply in life, on his dead he started to be more known and his works spread widely around the