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"H.P. Lovecraft could legitimately be called the Aristotle of the horror tale. Like his famous predecessor, he wrote a Poetics, 'Supernatural Horror in Literature,' and he constructed a classical theory of effect that parallels Aristotle's contention that it is the skillful use of realistic detail, accepted as truth by a credulous reader, that carries a narrative slowly and surely into the realm of the imaginative and the marvelous" [Barton Levi St. Armand, The Roots of Horror in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Elizabethtown: Dragon Press, 1977), p. v.]
Because the copyrights of many of Lovecraft's works are in dispute, you won't find much of his canon online. But a comprehensive source and an excellent place to start your research is a site called The H.P. Lovecraft Archive. I recommend it highly.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, on August 20, 1890. He is the author of a number of short stories and novels most of which deal in his special style of horror. Lovecraft is probably best known for his Cthuhlu Mythos and his Necronomicon. Click Lovecraft biography for more information about Lovecraft's life and works. For additional information and online biographies select from the following list: