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Lovecraft, H. P.

      The writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft, b.  Providence, R.I., Aug.  
      20, 1890, d.  Mar.  13, 1937, was remarkable for the macabre 
      imagination he displayed in his fantasy and horror tales, upon 
      which numerous genre films have since been based. A precocious 
      child and reclusive man, Lovecraft wrote of dislocations in the 
      web of time and space that exposed unspeakable monsters.  He 
      created the Cthulhu mythos to support his vision of the horrible 
      origins of the world.  Some of his best writing is found in The 
      Dunwich Horror and Other Weird Tales (1939;  repr.  as The 
      Dunwich Horror, 1945) and Best Supernatural Stories of H.  P.  
      Lovecraft (1945). Five volumes of his Selected Letters (1965-76) 
      have appeared.

      Bibliography:  Cannon, P., H.  P.  Lovecraft (1989);  De Camp, L. 
      Sprague, Lovecraft:  A Biography (1975);  Joshi, S.T., ed., 
      Lovecraft (1980);  Levy, M., Lovecraft, trans.  by S.T.  Joshi 
      (1988);  Schweitzer, D., ed., Discovering H.P.  Lovecraft 
      (1987);  Shreffler, Philip A., The H. P.  Lovecraft Companion 
      (1977).