Lovecraft biography briefly

Brief biography of Lovecraft Hello, friends! At first, I planned to unite in this issue of a brief biography of G. Lovecraft and a review of the novel "Shadow above the Innsmouth", but it turned out to be too long. Therefore, I decided to divide it into two publications. Today's EXTRA release will be devoted to a brief biography of Lovecraft, and the next behind it is the reviews of the novel "Shadow above the Innsmouth." Part 1.

Ranks of madness Image: Livelib. Providence was founded in the year by Protestant theologian Roger Williams. Williams expelled from Massachusetts for too radical religious views. He believed that a person can profess any religion, that for the Puritan society of the 17th century it was very bold. By legend, when Roger Williams saw a plot of land that was suitable for the settlement, he exclaimed: “The merciful Providence of God!

The various religious dissidents of that time began to settle in Provice: Baptists, Quakers, Huguenots and Jews. For this, the inhabitants of Massachusetts called him“ The Sleep Coven of New England ”. A great accumulation in the city of various religious sects later found reflection in the city. the author of the author in the form of gloomy adherents of the ancient gods.

At the age of two, Lovecraft's father enters a psychiatric hospital, in which he was five years until his death. The boy and his mother were sheltered by his grandfather - Wild Bang Buren Filips. Howard was a gifted child, already at the age of two, he could read poetry by heart, and at the age of six he wrote his first stories. Thanks to grandfather, who had a large library, Howard began to read a lot, mainly classical literature, as well as Gothic prose.

Edgar Allan Po, became famous as the author of mystical stories and poems "Raven", became the favorite author of young Lovecraft. Apparently, the father’s mental illness was reflected in his son. From childhood, Lovecraft was tormented by nightmares, in which he had vile creatures with weed wings.

Later, he used images from his dreams to write novels. When grandfather died in the year, Lovecraft had a nervous breakdown and he thought about suicide. Due to the loosened psyche and frequent diseases, Howard could not finish the school, which was very ashamed of until the end of his days. Howard did not enter the Institute, continuing to engage in literature at home.

Lovecraft at the age of 10 at the age of 15, Lovecraft wrote the first story that came to us under the name "Beast in the Cave", and three years later, "Alchemist". Then he abandoned the spelling of fantastic stories, considering them frivolous and was carried away by poetry. Only in the year, at the age of 27, he wrote his first famous story "Dagon", published in the magazine "Wierd Tales".

At the same time, Howard begins friendship and correspondence with American fantasy writers Robert Bloch by the author of the novel “Psykh” and Gobert Howard Romanov about Konan-Warvar and Solomon Kane. After a long depression, Lovecraft's mother enters the same psychiatric hospital in which her husband died. Soon it dies, and Lovecraft is left without a livelihood, having experienced another nervous breakdown.

In order to somehow live, he sets up to work as a literary editor, ruling the texts of young journalists and novice writers. Soon, after the death of his mother, Howard marries the Russian emigrant Sonya Green, who was seven years older than him. After the wedding, the spouses move to New York, but Lovecraft did not like life after a quiet and provincial provincial provincial provincial.

A few years later, the couple parted, according to one version, the reason was in the homosexuality of Lovecraft. The writer's craft did not bring Lovecraft either money or glory. He died in poverty from intestinal cancer in the age of 47. The writer was much ahead of his time and received worldwide recognition only at the end of the 20th century.