Lovecraft fell in love with Marblehead, Mass., in 1922. New England towns, on the other hand, got him excited. His wife, Sonia Greene, wrote that Lovecraft had performed satisfactorily as a lover, though she had to take the initiative in all aspects of the relationship. He was a virgin when he married at the age of 34. Lovecraft himself wrote he had a mental picture of Arkham as “a town something like Salem in atmosphere style of houses, but more hilly with a college (which Salem ) … I place the town the imaginary Miskatonic somewhere north of Salem-perhaps near Manchester.” The town of Arkham appears in a dozen stories. It may have inspired Arkham Sanitarium, which appears in The Thing on the Doorstep. They had the “dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesqueness, and ignorance” that combined to form the hideous, he wrote.ĭanvers State Hospital appears in two stories, Pickman’s Model and The Shadow over Innsmouth. He was also drawn to the lonely old farmhouses of backwoods New England. “Here is material for a really profound study in group neuroticism for certainly, none can deny the existence of a profoundly morbid streak in the Puritan imagination,” he wrote. His work features New England landmarks known as Lovecraft Country. Those are the bare outlines of his life: Here are some fun facts about him. She married another man and he died of intestinal cancer in 1937. He and Sonia theoretically divorced, only he never signed the divorce decree. At first he loved New York, then he hated it and moved back to Providence. He strove for success, but didn’t find it.
Lovecraft and Greene married and moved to Brooklyn while she supported him. Shortly afterward Lovecraft met Sonia Greene, a widow who owned a hat shop in New York City. His mother was hospitalized for depression in 1919 and died in 1921. That put him in touch with a wide network of writers. In 1913 he wrote a letter to the editor of Argosy magazine which led to an invitation to join United Amateur Press Association. Lovecraft and his mother moved to a smaller home. Then in 1904, when Lovecraft was 14, his grandfather died and didn’t leave much money. His grandfather’s fortune began to dissipate. What he called a nervous breakdown caused him to drop out of high school. Intellectually curious, he liked high school and loved science. He learned to read in his grandfather’s large library.
The spacious house looked down on park-like grounds with winding walks, arbors and a fountain. His grieving mother then smothered him emotionally.įor much of his childhood, Lovecraft lived in his grandfather’s large home with his mother, two aunts, grandfather and servants. When Lovecraft was three years old his father was committed to Butler Hospital for doing and saying strange things. Sarah, Howard, and Winfield Lovecraft in 1892
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