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Grave, bleak, classical in form and earnest.
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- warmbleak
- classical in formformally daring
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- intimateepic
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- Author
- H.P. Lovecraft
- First published
- 1997
- Pages
- 243
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780786704453
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“Few persons know the inside of the Clarendon story, or even that there is an inside not reached by the newspapers.”
Born in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England. After his father's institutionalization in 1893, he lived affluently until his family's wealth dissipated after the death of his grandfather. He then lived with his mother, in reduced financial security, until her institutionalization in 1919. 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. He became active in the speculative fiction community and was published in several pulp magazines. Lovecraft moved to New York City, marrying Sonia Greene in 1924, and later became the center of
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