lovecraft HP

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lovecraft HP

American poet and author of macabre short novels, whose popularity, particularly in America and France, can be traced to the 1960s or so 'Cthulhu Mythos' stories. H.P. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the genre of horror fiction and he is considered the most original American writer of weird fiction subsequent to Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft's imaginary town in his tales, Arkham, was based on his home town of Providence. "For after all, …showed first 75 words of 1141 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 1141 total…Howard Phillips Lovecraft: The Books, Addenda and Auxiliary by Joseph Bell (1983); Lovecraft: A Study in the Fantastic by Maurice Lévy (1988); Lovecraft: A Life by S.T. Joshi (1996); The Encyclopedia of Fantasy, ed by John Clute and John Grant (1997); Clive Baker's A-Z of Horror (1997); Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers, ed. by David Pringle (1998) - Note: Among Lovecraft's circle of correspondents was writer Robert Bloch, who became famous with his story Psycho (film 1960, dir. by Alfred Hitchcock). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ **Bibliography**

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