Sunday, September 4, 2011

H. P. Lovecraft

"No new horror can be more terrible than the daily torture of the commonplace"
H. P. Lovecraft

WHO: H.P. Lovecraft, in full Howard Phillips Lovecraft (born Aug. 20, 1890, Providence, R.I., U.S.—died March 15, 1937, Providence), American author of fantastic and macabre short novels and stories, one of the 20th-century masters of the Gothic tale of terror.

WHERE: This quote comes from the poem Ex Oblivione.

WHEN: 
 Lovecraft wrote this in late 1920 or early 1921 and it was first published in The United Amateur in March 1921, under the pseudonym Ward Phillips.



Related Author: Clive Barker, Stephen King

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