It is a certain hour of twilight glooms, Mostly in autumn, when the star-wind pours Down hilltop streets, deserted out-of-doors, But showing early lamplight from snug rooms.…
Howard Phillips Lovecraft, an American author of horror and fantasy, was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. Although he never published a book in his lifetime, Lovecraft published numerous essays, poems, and short stories, of which he is best known for “The Call of the Cthulhu,” first published in Weird Tales in 1928. He is the namesake of the term “Lovecraftian horror,” a subgenre that emphasizes cosmic dread. Lovecraft died on March 15, 1937, in Providence.