Howard Phillips Lovecraft

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Howard
Phillips
Lovecraft

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Outline (done by Alisher Zhaisanbetov)
Introduction
● Brief history
● Characteristics
● Interesting facts
● Conclusion
● References

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Master of horror
Being a person with wild imagination and severe
tanatophobia, H.P. Lovecraft gave us the totally
new lands for the writers and readers alike: horror
about the unspeakable things. I will briefly
describe Lovecraft’s creations and life, yet it
would be a small fraction of the vast ocean.

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Early life

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Peculiarity of his creations
● Most of Lovecraft’s short stories appeared in the magazine Weird Tales.
● His Cthulhu Mythos series of tales describe ordinary New Englanders’ encounters with horrific beings of
extraterrestrial origin. In these short stories, Lovecraft’s intimate knowledge of New England’s geography and
culture is blended with an elaborate original mythology.
His other short stories deal with similarly terrifying phenomena in which horror and morbid fantasy acquire an
unexpected verisimilitude. The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927; published posthumously 1941), At the Mountains
of Madness (1931, published 1936), and The Shadow over Innsmouth (1931, published 1936) are considered his best
short novels. Lovecraft was a master of poetic language, and he attained unusually high literary standards in his
particular fictional genre.

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MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF HIS WORKS
UNSPEAKABLE
Descriptions of his
creature are based on
reader’s imagination,
rather than on direct
appearance
BIZARRE
You can expect everything
in his works, starting from
the usual detective case to
surreal exploration of
dreams
DEEP
Most of the works are
more or less connected
with oceans and lakes
(physical world) or with
space and dreams
(outer world)
SPOOKY
Being a man with various
illnesses and
tanatophobia, Lovecraft
was able to create tense
and scary stories

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Some facts about H.P. Lovecraft
Creature of the night
100’000 letters
Harry Houdini
Night terrors
Lovecraft would only leave
the house after sunset,
staying up late to study
science and astronomy and
to read and write
He was best buddies with
Harry Houdini, world famous
magician
Lovecraft regularly wrote to
friends, family and enthusiastic
amateur writers, many of whom
adopted themes, style and even
characters from his work
H.P. dreamed of what he called
“nightgaunts” which later
appeared in his books as thin,
black, and faceless humanoids that
tickle their victims into submission.

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Conclusion
his stories are available in textually corrected
editions, his essays, poems, and letters are
widely available, and many scholars have
probed the depths and complexities of his work
and thought. Much remains to be done in the
study of Lovecraft, but it is safe to say that,
thanks to the intrinsic merit of his own work and
to the diligence of his associates and
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unassailable niche in the canon of American
and world literature.

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References
https://www.hplovecraft.com/
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