H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft (1890–1937) was an American writer of horror and weird fiction who lived almost all his life in Providence, Rhode Island, the city whose colonial houses fill his stories. A sickly, precocious child raised by his mother and aunts, he never finished school, lived on a dwindling inheritance and published only in the pulp magazines, chiefly Weird Tales. "The Call of Cthulhu," "The Shunned House," "The Dunwich Horror" and At the Mountains of Madness imagine a universe indifferent to humanity. He died of cancer at forty-six, poor and little known; his friends' efforts after his death made him the most influential horror writer of the century.