Hp lovecraft's the dunwich horror and other stories

Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of a wider group of authors known as the "Lovecraft Circle". He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. He began to write essays for the United Amateur Press Association, and in 1913 wrote a critical letter to a pulp magazine that ultimately led to his involvement in pulp fiction. Lovecraft then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. īorn in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos. Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( US: / ˈ l ʌ v k r æ f t/ Aug– March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird, science, fantasy, and horror fiction.