H.P. Lovecraft
20 August 1890 – 15 March 1937
2,568 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
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. He 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, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". They introduced him to Weird Tales, which would become 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 would remain active as a writer for 11 more years until his death from intestinal cancer at the age of 46.
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Also published as: Howard Phillips Lovecraft, H.P.L., HPL, Howard P. Lovecraft, Howard Phil Lovecraft, Howard Philips Lovecraft
Most-read books
At the Mountains of Madness
3.7 · 1968 · 215 want to read
Necronomicon
4.4 · 2008 · 142 want to read
The Call of Cthulhu
2.8 · 2016 · 128 want to read
The Dark Descent
4 · 1987 · 130 want to read
The Dunwich Horror
4.1 · 1963 · 95 want to read
The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales
4 · 1992 · 89 want to read
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
3.8 · 1965 · 67 want to read
The Lurker at the Threshold
1945 · 60 want to read
The colour out of space
4 · 1967 · 57 want to read
The dream-quest of unknown Kadath
3.9 · 1955 · 42 want to read
The call of Cthulhu and other weird stories
4.1 · 1999 · 26 want to read
Dagon, and other macabre tales
5 · 1965 · 38 want to read
The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural
4 · 1981 · 38 want to read
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
3 · 1980 · 39 want to read
Novels
4.5 · 1982 · 32 want to read
Call of Cthulhu
4.5 · 2019 · 30 want to read
Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror
1982 · 32 want to read
The annotated H.P. Lovecraft
4 · 1997 · 30 want to read
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies!
4 · 2011 · 26 want to read
The Nightmare Reader
3 · 1973 · 25 want to read
The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions
1970 · 27 want to read
The Color of Evil
3 · 1991 · 25 want to read
The Lurking Fear and Other Stories
5 · 1973 · 23 want to read
Graphic Classics
3 · 2002 · 24 want to read