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Lovecraft's time in New York took a toll on his mental state and financial conditions. He returned to Providence in 1926 and produced some of his most popular works, including The Call of Cthulhu , At the Mountains of Madness , The Shadow over Innsmouth , and The Shadow Out of Time .
Both of Lovecraft's parents died in a mental hospital, and some writers have seen a concern with having inherited a propensity for physical and mental degeneration reflected in the plot of his stories, especially his 1931 novella, The Shadow over Innsmouth, which shares some themes with Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family. [2]
Illustration to the story by Richard V. Correll (Weird Tales, 1942). The narrator recounts his history with the title character, who has recently disappeared. He details his time as a medical student at Miskatonic University, during which is when the narrator becomes fascinated by West's theories, which postulate that the human body is simply a complex, organic machine which can be "restarted".
The Danvers State Hospital was officially opened in 1878 after four years of construction. [1] Nathaniel Jeremiah Bradlee served as the designing architect. [1]At a cost of $1.5 million at the time, the hospital originally consisted of two main center buildings, housing the administration, with four radiating wings on each side of the Administration Block.
An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia doesn't mention anything about the chronology of "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" or "Out of the Aeons". Lovecraft scholar S.T. Joshi used the chronology Lovecraft gives in "The Silver Key" in which the events in "The Statement of Randolph Carter" took place when Carter was in his late forties.
Main illustration for the story "Beyond the Wall of Sleep". Internal illustration from the pulp magazine Weird Tales (March 1938, vol. 31, no. 3, page 331).. A former intern and a worker of a mental hospital relates his experience with Joe Slater, an inmate who died at the facility a few weeks after being confined as a criminally insane murderer.
An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia is a reference work written by S. T. Joshi and David E. Schultz. [1] It covers the life and work of American horror fiction writer H. P. Lovecraft . First published in 2001 by Greenwood Publishing Group, it was reissued in a slightly revised paperback edition by Hippocampus Press.
H. P. Lovecraft: A Life is a biography of American writer H. P. Lovecraft by S. T. Joshi, first published by Necronomicon Press in 1996. The original one-volume ...