Book description
Between these pages you will find things that lurk, things that scurry
in the walls, things that move unseen, things that have learnt to walk
that ought to crawl, unfathomable blackness, unconquerable evil, inhuman
impulses, abnormal bodies, ancient rites, nameless lands best left
undiscovered, thoughts best left unspoken, doors best left closed, names
best forgotten. You have been warned. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was
born in Providence, Rhode Island on August 20, 1890. His father, a
traveling salesman, suffered a nervous breakdown three years later and
was hospitalised until his death in 1898, from a form of syphilis.
Lovecraft's family experienced financial difficulties after the death of
his grandfather in 1904, and the shame of this deeply affected the young
writer. His relationship with his mother was severely troubled, and she
was also hospitalised after a nervous breakdown in 1919. After a brief
marriage and a period living in Brooklyn where he first began publishing
his stories in the magazine
Weird Tales
, Lovecraft returned to Providence where he continued to write stories,
and supported himself through ghost-writing. He continued to be plagued
by money problems, and died in relative poverty on March 15, 1937. His
numerous stories, novellas and poem were never collected and properly
published during his lifetime.
