H.P. Lovecraft

H.P. Lovecraft was an American writer of the early 20th century. His most famous works are the short story "The Call of Cthulhu", published in 1928, and the novella At the Mountains of Madness, published in 1936.

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• Lifetime: 20 August 1890 • 15 March 1937
• Main genre: Horror, weird fiction
• Literary movement: Cosmicism
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