H. P. Lovecraft

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correspondent essayist horror fiction writer human novelist short story writer writer

H. P. Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and cosmic horror fiction whose creation of the Cthulhu Mythos and emphasis on existential dread profoundly shaped modern horror literature.

Aliases (2)

Howard Phillips Lovecraft ×1
Lovecraft ×1

Statements (72)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	correspondent → essayist → horror fiction writer → human → novelist → short story writer → writer →
associatedWith	Weird Tales magazine → amateur press associations →
burialPlace	Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, Rhode Island →
causeOfDeath	intestinal cancer →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
created	Cthulhu → Cthulhu Mythos → Necronomicon (fictional grimoire) →
dateOfBirth	1890-08-20 →
dateOfDeath	1937-03-15 →
education	Hope High School (did not graduate) →
emphasis	cosmic insignificance of humanity → existential dread →
ethnicGroup	Anglo-American →
familyName	Lovecraft →
father	Winfield Scott Lovecraft →
fullName	Howard Phillips Lovecraft →
genre	cosmic horror → horror fiction → weird fiction →
givenName	Howard →
influenced	Clive Barker → Horror role-playing games → Neil Gaiman → Stephen King → cosmic horror genre → modern horror literature →
knownFor	creation of the Cthulhu Mythos → development of cosmic horror → influence on 20th-century horror fiction →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
marriageEnd	1929 →
marriageStart	1924 →
middleName	Phillips →
mother	Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft →
movement	weird fiction tradition →
notableWork	At the Mountains of Madness → Herbert West–Reanimator → The Call of Cthulhu → The Case of Charles Dexter Ward → The Colour Out of Space → The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath → The Dreams in the Witch House → The Dunwich Horror → The Music of Erich Zann → The Outsider → The Rats in the Walls → The Shadow Out of Time → The Shadow over Innsmouth → The Whisperer in Darkness →
occupation	amateur journalist → editor → writer →
placeOfBirth	Providence, Rhode Island, United States →
placeOfDeath	Providence, Rhode Island, United States →
previousReligion	Protestantism →
relative	Whipple Van Buren Phillips →
religion	atheism →
residence	Providence, Rhode Island, United States →
sexOrGender	male →
spouse	Sonia H. Greene →
styleCharacteristic	archaic diction → epistolary narratives → first-person accounts of madness →
writingPeriod	early 20th century →

Referenced by (7)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Guillermo del Toro → Mike Mignola → Neil Gaiman → Stephen King →	influencedBy
H. P. Lovecraft ("Lovecraft") →	familyName
H. P. Lovecraft ("Howard Phillips Lovecraft") →	fullName
Edgar Allan Poe →	influenced