H. P. Lovecraft Research Paper

The Complicated Life of H.P. Lovecraft
“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown” - H.P. Lovecraft. According to H.P. Lovecraft humans are easily frightened, especially of the unknown things in life, and especially the unknown things about death. H.P. Lovecraft loved to write weird fiction, his maternal grandfather, Whipple Van Buren Phillips, sparked his interest as a child when he would tell him stories before he went to sleep at night. He stayed home from school often as a child because he had a lot of health problems that complicated his going to school. He loved to lose himself in the fictional world of books because he did not have many friends as a child, due

He was born August 20th 1890, in Providence, Rhode Island. He was a sickly child who stayed home from school often, he did attend Hope High School but he had to drop out due to several nervous breakdowns. His father was a traveling salesman until he was institutionalized in Butler Hospital in Providence in 1893 because of untreated syphilis, and he later died in the institution in 1898. None of Lovecrafts works were really published or even really recognized, except for a few short stories and a couple of newspaper articles on astronomy, until after his death because Lovecraft was way too modest to self promote his work. He was a recluse for several years and he was very socially isolated, however he was estimated to write over 100,000 letters to friends, family, and colleges. Lovecraft married a woman named Sonia Greene March 3rd 1924, and they moved to New York to start their new life together, but they divorced after only two years. After his marriage ended he moved back to Providence, Rhode Island. He died in poverty on March 15th, 1937 in his birthplace of Providence, Rhode

“That is not dead which can eternal lie, And with strange aeons even death may die” - H.P Lovecraft. Lovecraft is saying in this quote that monsters and demons do not die, they do not go away or perish. This quote also means that the Earth will be here even after there are no humans left and after there is no more death in the world. Everything will die until anything no longer exists. Many of Lovecraft 's characters die in his stories, or they are already dead. In his story The Outsider the character finds that he is already dead at the end of the story. Throughout the story he is in a castle by himself, later he finds a trap door that leads him to a church and a ballroom where he later finds that he had been dead the whole time, and the castle was his afterlife. He finds that once he 's left he can not re enter his afterlife or the underworld so he is stuck in the land of the living. Lovecraft was an atheist so he did not believe in heaven or hell, but he believed there was something after death, because energy does not just