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Real Name |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft |
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Born |
August 20, 1890 |
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Died |
March 15, 1937 |
Origin[]
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos.
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. Lovecraft then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919.
He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924.
Later he became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". They introduced him to Weird Tales, which became his most prominent publisher. Lovecraft's time in New York took a toll on his mental state and financial conditions. He returned to Providence in 1926 and produced some of his most popular works, including "The Call of Cthulhu", At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time. He remained active as a writer for 11 years until his death from intestinal cancer at the age of 46.
Public Domain Literary Works[]
- 1916, November: The Alchemist (The United Amateur, 16, No. 4)
- 1917, November: A Reminiscence of Dr. Samuel Johnson (The United Amateur, 17, No. 2)
- 1918, June: The Beast in the Cave (The Vagrant, No. 7)
- 1919, June: Memory (The United Co-operative, 1, No. 2)
- 1919, October: Beyond the Wall of Sleep (Pine Cones, 1, No. 6)
- 1919, November: Dagon (The Vagrant, No. 11)
- 1919, November: The White Ship (The United Amateur, 19, No. 2)
- 1920, May: The Statement of Randolph Carter (The Vagrant, No. 13)
- 1920, June: The Doom That Came to Sarnath (The Scot, No. 44)
- 1920, September: Poetry and the Gods (The United Amateur, 20, No. 1)
- 1920, November: The Cats of Ulthar (The Tryout, 6, No. 11)
- 1920, November: Nyarlathotep (The United Amateur, 20, No. 2)
- 1920, December: Polaris (The Philosopher, 1, No. 1)
- 1920, December: The Street (The Wolverine, No. 8)
- 1921, March: Ex Oblivione (The United Amateur, 20, No. 4)
- 1921, March: Facts concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (The Wolverine, No. 9)
- 1921, April: The Crawling Chaos (The United Co-operative, 1, No. 3)
- 1921, July: The Terrible Old Man (The Tryout, 7, No. 4)
- “1919, July” (1921, summer): The Picture in the House (The National Amateur, 41, No. 6)
- 1921, October: The Tree (The Tryout, 7, No. 7)
- 1921, November: The Nameless City (The Wolverine, No. 11)
- 1922, February–July: Herbert West—Reanimator (Home Brew, 1, No. 1–6)
- 1922, March: The Music of Erich Zann (The National Amateur, 44, No. 4)
- 1922, March: The Tomb (The Vagrant, No. 14)
- 1922, May: Celephaïs (The Rainbow, No. 2)
- 1923, January–April: The Lurking Fear (Home Brew, 2, No. 6 – 3, No. 3)
- 1923, May: Hypnos (The National Amateur, 45, No. 5)
- 1923, May: What the Moon Brings (The National Amateur, 45, No. 5)
- 1923, November: The Horror at Martin’s Beach (Weird Tales, 2, No. 4)
- 1924, February: The Hound (Weird Tales, 3, No. 2)
- 1924, March: Ashes (Weird Tales, 3, No. 3)
- 1924, March: The Rats in the Walls (Weird Tales, 3, No. 3)
- 1924, April: The Ghost-Eater (Weird Tales, 3, No. 4)
- 1924, May–June–July: Under the Pyramids (Weird Tales, 4, No. 2)
- 1924, May–June–July: The Loved Dead (Weird Tales, 4, No. 2)
- 1925, January: The Festival (Weird Tales, 5, No. 1)
- 1925, April: Deaf, Dumb, and Blind (Weird Tales, 5, No. 4)
- 1925, July: The Unnamable (Weird Tales, 6, No. 1)
- 1925, September: The Temple (Weird Tales, 6, No. 3)
- 1925, November: In the Vault (The Tryout, 10, No. 6)
- 1926, April: The Outsider (Weird Tales, 7, No. 4)
- 1926, June: The Moon-Bog (Weird Tales, 7, No. 6)
- 1926, September: He (Weird Tales, 8, No. 3)
- 1927, January: The Horror at Red Hook (Weird Tales, 9, No. 1)
- [1927, Spring]: The Green Meadow (The Vagrant)
- 1927, August: Two Black Bottles (Weird Tales, 10, No. 2)
- 1927, September: The Colour out of Space (Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, No. 6)
- 1927, October: Pickman’s Model (Weird Tales, 10, No. 4)
- 1928, February: The Call of Cthulhu (Weird Tales, 11, No. 2)
- 1928, March: Cool Air (Tales of Magic and Mystery, 1, No. 4)
- 1928: The Shunned House (The Shunned House, The Recluse Press)
Notes[]
- A list of public domain character created by H.P. Lovecraft can be found here.
- After reading One Thousand and One Nights when he was young, Lovecraft took on the identity of "Abdul Alhazred", a name he later used for the author of the Necronomicon.
- "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" (called "Under the Pyramids" in draft form, also published as "Entombed with the Pharaohs") is a short story written by American fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft in collaboration with Harry Houdini in February 1924.