Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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. Lovecraft's time in New York took a toll on his mental state and financial conditions.
Radio adaptation by Macabre Fantasy Radio Theater was performed live at the H. P. Lovecraft Film Festival in September 2012. [5] "The Statement of Randolph Carter" was loosely adapted as a horror comic known as H.P. Lovecraft's The Grave [6] The song "You Fool, Warren is Dead!" by The Darkest of the Hillside Thickets is based on the story.
Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi refers to the area as the Miskatonic region, after its fictional river and university. [1] Lovecraft biographer Lin Carter calls it Miskatonic County, [2] [page needed] and the film Color Out of Space refers to it as Arkham County, although Lovecraft indicates that at least some of his fictional towns were located in the real-life Essex County of Massachusetts.
For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to reach us
Lovecraft wrote "The Hound" shortly afterwards, using as the name of one of the main characters his nickname for his companion Kleinhart, "St. John". [4] The grave that is fatefully robbed in the story is in a "terrible Holland churchyard"—perhaps a reference to Flatbush church being part of the Dutch Reformed Church (although the story is ...
"The Terrible Old Man" is a short story of fewer than 1200 words by American writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was written on January 28, 1920, and first published in the Tryout, an amateur press publication, in July 1921. It is notable as the first story to make use of Lovecraft's imaginary New England setting, introducing the fictional town of ...
The location of R'lyeh given by Lovecraft was in the southern Pacific August Derleth placed it at about 49°51′S 128°34′W / 49.850°S 128.567°W / -49.850; -128 Both locations are close to the Pacific pole of inaccessibility or "Nemo" point , 48°52.6′S 123°23.6′W / 48.8767°S 123.3933°W / -48.8767; -123.3933 ...
A 2021 study also led by Key confirmed the grave marker to be the oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States. His latest study set out to find the origin of the tombstone.