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Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born at 9 a.m. on August 20, 1890, at his family home at 454 (then numbered 194) 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 1630. His father was Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling ...
Aug 7, 2020 · Based on Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel, the series is a sideways look at the terrors of Jim Crow America that nods to and reframes the work of H.P. Lovecraft, the widely cited if narrowly read pulp ...
—Lovecraft em 1921. Lovecraft mergulhou no mundo do jornalismo amador durante a maior parte da década seguinte. Durante este período, ele defendeu a superioridade do amadorismo sobre o comercialismo. Lovecraft definiu o comercialismo como escrever para o que ele considerava publicações vulgares mediante pagamento. Isso contrastava com sua visão de "publicação profissional", que era o ...
Mar 27, 2020 · H. P. Lovecraft’s influence on horror and other speculative fiction has been profound. Horror, especially, was still the genre of Edgar Allan Poe and Bram Stoker when Lovecraft began publishing, still a genre marked by gentlemen facing down evils that sought to destroy the natural order, or to lure men into ruin.
Aug 20, 2012 · Howard Phillips Lovecraft, of Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction. Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien. Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity.
Aug 20, 2015 · On the 125th anniversary of Lovecraft’s birth on August 20, 1890, the author’s legacy has never been more secure—or more complex. Stephen King calls him “the 20th century’s greatest ...
In the 1920s and ’30s, H.P. Lovecraft pioneered a new type of weird fiction that fused elements of supernatural horror with the concepts of visionary science fiction. Lovecraft’s tales of cosmic horror revolutionized modern horror fiction and earned him the reputation of the most influential American writer of weird tales since Edgar Allan Poe.
