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H.P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1890. Lovecraft's father, Winfield Scott Lovecraft, was institutionalized in 1893 after a psychotic episode and died in 1898, leaving H.P. to be raised by his mother, Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, and his maternal grandparents. Lovecraft has a particularly close relationship with his grandfather, who along with Susan helped introduce him to European art and various works of literature. Lovecraft's earliest known creative...

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