He wanted to be an astronomer, but as a sickly child, he only attended school sporadically and was essentially self-educated, and due to what he termed a nervous breakdown, he never finished high school and instead only dabbled informally in his passions. His father went insane from syphilis and died when Lovecraft was about eight.
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Lovecraft credited these issues as the inspiration for much of his work, and it shows - many of his stories are focused on the frightening veil between waking and dreaming, where one's thoughts are jumbled and the world around them seems unreal.Īlthough Lovecraft descended from a wealthy and privileged family (his rich grandparents, mother, and aunts gave him just about everything he wanted, including free run of the family library, his Grandma Robie introduced him to astronomy, and his Aunt Lillian to math and chemistry, while Grandpa Whipple loved ghost stories and ancient stuff), his early years were marked by loss. At least one literary critic has described him as being "afraid of everything that wasn't his home town of Providence, Rhode Island," and it's not an unfair assessment. Nightmares are "bad dreams" that cause mental distress but little else night terrors are more like "unconscious panic attacks" and frequently involve spasming, moaning/shouting, and often result in the patient "bolting" awake. Lovecraft was more fond of books than of people, very much like most of his protagonists, and famously suffered from a large number of phobias note Most famously thalassophobia, the fear of the deep ocean and medical disorders, most notably chronic night terrors note Not to be confused with ordinary nightmares.
The best known author of the Cosmic Horror Story genre and the originator of the Cthulhu Mythos, Howard Phillips Lovecraft (AugMarch 15, 1937) is considered perhaps both the greatest and most notorious of all American horror fiction writers, rivaled only by his idol Edgar Allan Poe.
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