The man himself, born as the stars were right in 1890 in Providence, RI. Enjoy some of his vintage paperback covers - some of them as iconic as the stories contained inside - as I continue to work on a review of a stunning 1980s short story collection...
And yr humble narrator, outside the Lovecraft Bar in Portland, OR
August 20, 2012
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As much as I know about Lovecraft and his works (I've nearly read them all two or more times), I was unaware of his birth date. Mine is August 26th!
Happy birthday to good ol' HPL!
Those covers bring back some recollections. The Dunwich Horror was the first HPL collection I got, in LA back in 1978.
He was born on the same day as the lynching and _partial devouring_ of deposed Dutch head of state Johan de Witt (1672).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_de_Witt#Death
And there wasn't even a famine at the time!
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