H.P. Lovecraft lived from August 20, 1890 to March 15, 1937, born on Providence, Rhode Island. He was an American author most noted for his fiction works in the genre of weird fantasy and horror. He developed the idea of "Cosmic Horror" that would shape many of his literary works. He believed that our existence was mere nothing to he multitude of time and space, and that humanity if exposed to the awful truth of this would be driven insane. After all he would seem to be quite correct, for his view was not geocentric at all. As humans how can we believe that we are the center of the cosmos? An interesting note is that he himself suffered as a child from night terrors.... some say it is a rare parasomnia disorder (although in modern times it is now uncommon and closely linked to Alien Abduction).
His works were oddly facilitating in retrospect, for he wrote that out there in the cosmos an ancient alien intelligence dwelt. That in the ancient past it has visited earth, and that records of their passing can be found in ancient civilizations that have been long lost. He wrote of people who had come across these things and events. People haunted and driven into insanity by things they could not truly comprehend or grasp. Throughout his writings, these events are shorts stories that are seemingly unrelated. Yet in the greater picture and expanded upon by other writers, became the Cthulhu Mythos.
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