Lovecraft became a reclusive figure for several years, choosing to stay up late studying and reading and writing and then sleeping late into the day. As a teenager, he did attend Hope High School, but he suffered a nervous breakdown before he could earn his diploma. Lovecraft loved the works of Edgar Allan Poe and developed a special interest in astronomy. He became an avid reader, devouring works on a variety of texts. In 1893, his father became a patient at the Butler Hospital in Providence and there he remained until his death in 1898.Ī sickly child, Lovecraft spent many of his school years at home. His traveling salesman father developed a type of mental disorder caused by untreated syphilis when he was around the age of three. Lovecraft had an unusual childhood marked by tragedy. Lovecraft was born Howard Phillips Lovecraft in 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He died on March 15, 1937, in Providence, Rhode Island.
In his final years, he took editing and ghostwriting work to try to make ends meet. Elements of this story would reappear in other related tales.
His story "The Call of Cthulhu" came out in 1928 in Weird Tales. The horror magazine Weird Tales bought some of his stories in 1923. Lovecraft was born in 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island.
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