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    H.P. Lovecraft Biography: The Dark, Twisted World of The Horror Fiction Writer Who Was Recognized a Decade After His Death
    H.P. Lovecraft Biography: The Dark, Twisted World of The Horror Fiction Writer Who Was Recognized a Decade After His Death
    H.P. Lovecraft Biography: The Dark, Twisted World of The Horror Fiction Writer Who Was Recognized a Decade After His Death
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    H.P. Lovecraft Biography: The Dark, Twisted World of The Horror Fiction Writer Who Was Recognized a Decade After His Death

    By Chris Dicker

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    Lovecraft was considered a talented writer, an authority in storytelling and a highly respected erudite, a walking encyclopedia of ancient and modern knowledge. His passion to horror and science fiction was dated back from his childhood, where he used to have a lot of nightmares of monsters, demons and fears. He used them to facilitate his stories and writing later on.

    H.P. Lovecraft is known as a “future writer.” That’s because Lovecraft lived quite a difficult life through severe poverty, illness caused by self-neglect, his wife left him because of financial issues, and all of this despite his talents. Lovecraft was never recognized as a successful writer during his lifetime, because he never published any of his work. He was known only to local communities.

    However, Lovecraft was more than just a writer, but a mentor to many successful horror and science fiction writers we know today. Without Lovecraft, people like Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Robert Bloch, Clive Barker and Stephen King would never be the same. In fact, Stephen King himself claimed that Lovecraft was his top literary influence among many others.

    Thirty years after Lovecraft's death, the writer hit the first peak of his posthumous popularity, because his friends formed a publishing company of his work. Critics compared Lovecraft to Edgar Allan Poe himself, giving credit to his influence on the world of horror fiction decades after his actual death. Unfortunately, H.P. Lovecraft did not enjoy any of the material abundance and fame this life has to offer despite his talents for reasons already mentioned.

    H.P. Lovecraft’s work was adopted and taken by tabletop game, metal songs, Hollywood movies where some writer’s stories remained virtually unknown in mainstream for a decade. The writer’s stories were like some buried treasures, hidden gems, or a gold mine of some sort to folks on Hollywood and the entertainment industry, because they were considered as interesting plots for movies. However, one thing will always stand out: without Lovecraft, the modern horror wouldn’t be what it is today.

    If you want to learn more about Lovecraft's life, the father of Cthulhu, Innsmouth, Escherian alien, Nyarlathotep and many others... grab your copy now!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDigital Publishing Group
    Release dateDec 23, 2017
    ISBN9781370675777
    H.P. Lovecraft Biography: The Dark, Twisted World of The Horror Fiction Writer Who Was Recognized a Decade After His Death
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    Chris Dicker

    I love writing biographies about celebrities (dead or alive), because there's so much to learn from those people. Success leaves clues, so I study and write about successful people.

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      H.P. Lovecraft Biography - Chris Dicker

      H.P. Lovecraft Biography: The Dark, Twisted World of The Horror Fiction Writer Who Was Recognized a Decade After His Death

      Chris Dicker

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      Copyright © 2017 Chris Dicker

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      Book cover image photographed by Lucius B. Truesdell on June 1934 [Public Domain]. Copyright expired because the work was published without a copyright notice and/or without the necessary copyright registration.

      Table of Contents

      The Man Behind The Myth

      The Poet of Madness

      A Dreamer’s Childhood

      Early Period

      Lord Dunsany and New Inspirations

      Sonia Greene

      The Father of Cthulhu

      Unknown Kadath

      Death of a Genius

      Afterword

      The Man Behind the Myth

      "I know always that I am an outsider; a stranger in this century and among those who are still men." – H.P. Lovecraft

      Is there a single person on the Internet who hadn’t heard of the Great Cthulhu, an octopus dragon monster stirring in his slumber in a strange underwater city of R’Lyeh? Even the people totally unfamiliar with the works of Howard Philip Lovecraft must have heard of this creature, or at least saw a couple of Internet memes dedicated to it.

      It’s hard to imagine at the time of his creation, back in 1930s, this character was virtually unknown to the masses, even to people interested in horror literature. H.P. Lovecraft was never successful during his life and for many years after, and was known mostly amongst the community of horror writers themselves. By then though, the creator of cosmic horrors and abominations was highly revered: without Lovecraft, we might have

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