American poet and author of macabre short novels, whose popularity, particularly in America and France, can be traced to the 1960s or so 'Cthulhu Mythos' stories. H.P. Lovecraft has become a cult figure in the genre of horror fiction and he is considered the most original American writer of weird fiction subsequent to Edgar Allan Poe. Lovecraft's imaginary town in his tales, Arkham, was based on his home town of Providence. "For after all, …showed first 75 words of 1113 total…

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