Howard Phillips Lovecraft is a horror fictional writer who was very important and widely known in the twentieth century. He is considered one of the greatest fictional horror writers and he has been a hero and a villain who has influenced many people in positive and negative aspects. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in the late 1800s in Rhode Island and he is mostly known because of his horror fictional writings. During his infancy he could not attend school regularly because he was sick very often and that made him struggle every day. He was raised by his mother and in his teenage years he suffered a severe sickness which stopped him from finishing high school. In the early 1900s, years later after his incident, he was getting better, …show more content…
He enjoyed writing fictional horror writings and he was different from everyone else because he had a unique style of writing that nobody else had which attracted almost everyone. He used old-fashioned spelling and he terrified each person who read his works. The people who viewed him as a hero and a positive influence was regular people who liked reading and other authors were also interested in his work. They noticed that what he does not only terrifies a person, but it also disturbs the person’s mind by making that person think and feel a sense of darkness and creepiness while they are reading. Not only he influenced people and authors but also musicians and artists to combine his literature with their music or their art …show more content…
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