Stephen King: Lovecraft

Lovecraft: The mythos Lovecraft created in stories such as The Call of Cthulhu, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward and At the Mountains of Madness, has reached its tentacles deep into popular culture, so much that his creations and the works they inspired may be better known than the Providence writer himself, according to Times Colonist. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in 1890. His parents both died in an insane asylum, his father when Lovecraft was just 8 years old, said S.T. Joshi, who has written a biography of Lovecraft and edited several collections of his work. He attended just three years of high school, leaving because of a nervous breakdown, Joshi said and PROVIDENCE, R.I. - Anyone who has enjoyed the works of Stephen King, seen the films Alien or Prometheus, or heard about the fictional Arkham Asylum in Batman can thank H.P. Lovecraft, the early 20th century horror writer whose work has been an inspiration to others for nearly a century. Lovecrafts fans want to give the writer his due, and this month are holding what they say is the largest celebration ever of his work and influence. Its billed as the NecronomiCon, named after a Lovecraft creation: a book that was so dark and terrible that a person could barely read a few pages before going insane. The Aug. 22-25 convention is being held in Providence, Rhode Island, where he lived and died poor and obscure at age 46 in 1937. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.