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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 ? March 15, 1937), of
Providence, Rhode Island, was an American author of horror, fantasy, and
science fiction.
Lovecraft's major inspiration and invention was cosmic horror: life is
incomprehensible to human minds and the universe is fundamentally alien.
Those who genuinely reason, like his protagonists, gamble with sanity.
Lovecraft has developed a cult following for his Cthulhu Mythos, a series
of loosely interconnected fictions featuring a pantheon of human-nullifying
entities, as well as the Necronomicon, a fictional grimoire of magical
rites and forbidden lore. His works were deeply pessimistic and cynical,
challenging the values of the Enlightenment, Romanticism, and Christianity.
Lovecraft's protagonists usually achieve the mirror-opposite of traditional
gnosis and mysticism by momentarily glimpsing the horror of ultimate
reality.
Although Lovecraft's readership was limited during his
