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H. P. Lovecraft (1890-1937) was born in Providence, Rhode Island,
where he lived most of his life. He wrote many essays and poems
early in his career, but gradually focused on the writing of horror
stories, after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales,
to which he contributed most of his fiction. His relatively small
corpus of fiction-three short novels and about sixty short
stories-has nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent
work in the field, and he is regarded as the leading
twentieth-century American author of supernatural fiction.
S. T. Joshi is a freelance writer and editor. He has prepared
comprehensive editions of Lovecraft's collected fiction, essays,
and poetry. He is also the author of The Weird Tale (1990), The
Modern Weird Tale (2001), and Unutterable Horror- A History of
Supernatural Fiction (2012). His award-winning biography H. P.
Lovecraft- A Life (1996) was later expanded as I Am Providence- The
Life and Times of H. P. Lovecraft (2010). He has also prepared
Penguin Classics editions of the work of Arthur Machen, Lord
Dunsany, Algernon Blackwood, M. R. James, and Clark Ashton Smith,
as well as the anthology American Supernatural Tales (2007).
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