Greene, a successful executive in the clothing business in New York. In 1923 the founding of the pulp magazine Weird Tales afforded a professional venue for Lovecraft’s tales, even though it generally paid only one cent a word. Lovecraft quickly gained ascendancy in this community and was persuaded to resume the writing of weird fiction. Then, in 1914, he discovered the world of amateur journalism – a small community of writers, editors, and printers across the United States and England who issued small publications for their own amusement. Unable to find a job, he lounged at home while his increasingly neurotic mother took care of him. Lovecraft wrote poems, stories and essays from as early as the age of six, but at 18 – when he suffered what he called a nervous breakdown – he destroyed much of this work. But he developed a prodigious intellect through wide reading in his family library. Because of ill-health, his formal schooling was spotty, and he failed to graduate from high school. At the same time, he also became fascinated with the sciences, especially chemistry and astronomy. A precocious youth, he absorbed the Arabian Nights, Greek mythology, and the tales of Edgar Allan Poe before the age of ten. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He has also been championed as a canonical American author and a pioneer in the genre of ‘weird fiction.’ His work is disseminated both in English and in dozens of foreign languages it has been widely imitated by hundreds of writers, and has served as the basis for films, role-playing games, and even Christmas merchandise. Lovecraft has achieved a worldwide celebrity that he could not have begun to imagine. At the Mountains of Madness (chapters I–II)īiographies & Sources Foreword: Lovecraft Short Stories
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