Renowned horrorist H. P. Lovecraft was born on August 20, 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He began writing 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 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.’’ They introduced him to Weird Tales, which became his most prominent publisher.

He returned to Providence in 1926 and published his most enduring stories: The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time.

Lovecraft maintained extensive correspondence with a wide range of authors, exchanging thousands of letters with writers including Robert E. Howard, August Derleth, Robert Bloch, and E. Hoffmann Price, as well as fans worldwide.

He remained active as a writer for 11 years until his death from intestinal cancer at the age of 46. His works continue to haunt the edges of our collective unconscious, and his legacy as one of the fathers of modern horror fiction endures.