A Happy Birthday toast to H.P. Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15 1937), who is revered as a 20th century master of horror, fantasy, weird tales, and science fiction. According to Wikipedia, Stephen King called Lovecraft “the twentieth century’s greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale” and Joyce Carol Oates declared that Lovecraft exerted “an incalculable influence on succeeding generations of writers of horror fiction.”
Here is a compelling video bio of H.P. LoveCraft from Snag Films, and more links in honor of H.P. Lovecraft and his writings.
Read H.P. Lovecraft’s Collected Stories
Project Gutenberg of Australia eBooks – Lovecraft’s Collected Stories
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society
The H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society: An Alternate Universe Since 1984
The H.P. Lovecraft Archive
Writing advice from H.P. Lovecraft
H. P. Lovecraft Let Every Student Read Unceasingly the Best Writers
