Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT (人物)

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  • スクリーン名: Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT H. P. Lovecraft [ハワード・フィリップス・ラヴクラフト]
    実名: Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT
    タイプ: 人物
    性別: 男性
    星座: ♌ 獅子座
    生年月日: 20. 8月 1890
    故人: 15. 3月 1937
    出生地: アメリカ合衆国
    職業: 漫画家: 18, 参加: 1

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Howard Phillips Lovecraft, or simply H. P. Lovecraft, was an American writer who went down in history as one of the most important writers of fantastic horror literature.

He coined the genre of cosmic horror, which is therefore often referred to as Lovecraftian horror. In addition to the familiar gore elements, this genre is characterised above all by the fear of the unknown. He achieved international fame through the creation of the so-called “Cthulhu Mythos” including the fictional book “Necronomicon”. The Cthulhu are immortal beings with god-like power.

Lovecraft’s works received numerous adaptations, including films, games and video games, but also pieces of music, comics, graphic novels and mangas. He also influenced numerous other authors such as Clark Ashton Smith (“The Hunters from Beyond”), Robert Bloch (“Psycho”) and Frank Belknap Long (“Deadly Waters”).

Lovecraft was born the firstborn son of a travelling salesman in Providence, Rhode Island. Due to his father’s untimely death, he was raised mainly by his mother, grandfather, and aunts. He showed an early interest in literature, especially in fantastic stories. His grandfather often told him self-invented horror stories before his passing. Since Lovecraft already had physical and psychological problems as a youth, he attended classes only sporadically and never acquired a high school diploma. The fact that he was therefore never able to attend the university of his choice greatly ashamed him, even at a late age.

In 1914, nonetheless, he became part of the United Amateur Press Association (UAPA), an association of American amateur writers. There, he met like-minded people and was strengthened in his passion – literature. However, the death of his mother in 1921 shook him again. Shortly after her death, he met the writer Sonia Greene at a journalism convention. They married just three years later and moved together to Brooklyn, New York. Their life, which was beautiful at the beginning, soon became more and more difficult and difficulties determined their everyday life. Their marriage did not last long, and a divorce soon followed.

After the divorce, he went back to his home country, which was probably the best decision he could have made. Some of his best-known works, such as “The Madness Out of Time” or “At the Mountains of Madness” (meanwhile adapted as a manga), date from this time. His literary successes were quite modest during his lifetime. He only achieved fame and notoriety postmortem.

In 1937, Lovecraft died of colon cancer at the age of 46. Since his diagnosis, he suffered great pain for a whole year until his death.

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  • Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT H. P. Lovecraft
    オリジナル言語: ハワード・フィリップス・ラヴクラフト

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  • Howard Phillips LOVECRAFT
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