- American Horror tales, Fiction, horror, Fiction, short stories (single author)
The tomb -- Beyond the wall of sleep -- The White Ship -- The temple (manuscript found on the coast of Yucatan) -- The quest of Iranon -- The music of Erich Zann -- Under the pyramids (with Harry Houdini) -- Pickman's model -- The case of Charles Dexter Ward -- The Dunwich horror -- At the mountains of madness -- The thing on the doorstep.
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- Author
- H.P. Lovecraft
- First published
- 2001
- Pages
- 443
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Editions
- 1
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780142180037
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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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