Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. He is best known for his creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, but his legacy is also apparent in terms like
The Ghost Pirates
…writing has led horror writer Robert Weinberg to describe The Ghost Pirates as "one of the finest examples of the tightly written novel ever published." H.P. Lovecraft commented "The Ghost Pirates . . . is a powerful account of a doomed and haunted ship on its last voyage, and of the terrible sea-devils (of quasi-human…
Lovecraft in 1934
H. P. Lovecraft as a child, circa 1900
Whipple Van Buren Phillips
Lovecraft's final home, May 1933 until March 10, 1937