Lovecraft: A BiographyThe son of parents both of whom died insane, Lovecraft became a powerful philosophical thinker. Here is the bizarre tale of his habits; his tragi-comic literary and marital careers; his key role in the origin of science-fiction fandom; and how he worked his nightmares and neuroses into the stories that became a legend after his death. |
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