On this day in 1890, Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born. His unique brand of horror fiction was to inspire imitation by hundreds of authors and an avid readership spanning the globe numbering in their millions. A shy and retiring type, often socially awkward and bookish, never having completed his high school diploma, yet he managed to create a body of fiction which has become known as perhaps the most influential works of horror fiction in the modern age, the true father of modern horror.
For more details have a look at Wikipedia.
Happy birthday, HPL.
- “That is not dead which can eternal lie,
- And with strange aeons even death may die.”
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