The Story of H. Lovecraft.

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Pay attention that today I will tell you the true story of H. Lovecraft.


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Our story begins on August 20, 1890 in Providence Rhode Island, the day that was born the only child who would have the merchant Winfield Lovecraft and Sarah Susan Phillips, his name was Howard Philip Lovecraft our protagonist.


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Three years after the birth of his son, Winfield was in Chicago when something seized him, he had a nervous breakdown and ended up locked in a psychiatric hospital on the verge of madness. This situation would mark forever the little Howard.

His family was a bourgeois family, and after the death of Winfield, Howard clung to the skirts of his mother and she, a woman proud of her British past, was haughty, impetuous and always told her son to be British was the best thing in the world, that being born in the United States was the worst thing that could happen to someone because he constantly told his son that it was a country, ugly, hostile and full of rude people.

Howard always lonely and timid believed blindly in his mother and began to develop a hatred for migrants.

The attentions of his mother and his excessive overprotection marked him too much, and that is that after the death of Winfield, Howard lived with his maternal grandfather, his aunts and his mother, each and every one of them to pay attention to him, and as a result at 3 he already read and recited poetry. Howard was protected so much that he did not attend school until he was 8 years old so he had few or no friends and he grew up locked in his fantasy world, he was terrified of the real world, well imagine that he did not spend a night away from home until he fulfilled 30 years, but let's go back to his childhood.


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In the absence of friends Howard spent the afternoon visiting the woods, caves and back home let fly his imagination to the terrible loneliness that represented the reality in which he lived, became highly analytical and observed things and details that no one else perceived. He was a fan of police novels when he was 13 years old. He founded his own detective agency, but nobody in the neighborhood wanted to play with him and follow his fantasies. The reality was terrible, and although from a young age he dropped out of school (which always embarrassed him) he continued to learn from his grandfather that motivated him constantly to write down his ideas and keep him company, but in 1904 his grandfather died and Howard knew something terrible. Depression, he spent the nights awake, imagining and filling his head with fantastic terrors, a different reality and constantly thought about suicide, no matter how happy others saw him, the shadow of sadness nested deep in his soul.


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Howard could not make friends in part because his mother, a frustrated woman, a bourgeois woman come down unloading all his unfulfilled desires in his son and turned him into a strange and lonely being, that loneliness was killing him, young Howard did not eat more than sweet and ice cream, he began to deny God, he did not believe in the god of any church and in the old books of his grandfather he found consolation in the ancient Greek, Roman and primitive gods, it is said that he built altars to worship them.

On one occasion he ate fish in poor condition and since then he hated the sea and everything that came from it, he feared it and felt it was full of dangers, if we analyze well the works of Lovecraft we will see that many of the terrible beings that he imagined, live there. His first stage as a writer is Gothic, where people compared him to Edgar Allan Poe, here he wrote horror stories, full of dreary places, big and abandoned castles and desolate places, at this time he wrote works such as the successful "The Beast in Cave".


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In 1921 something happened that would break the psyche of the young Lovecraft, his mother died and Howard ended up living with his two old aunts, they told him he was ugly, very tall, with a huge jaw and fish eyes. He was very ugly, everyone who knew him coincided in that, in that he was ugly but with eyes that radiated kindness and kindness, although in the bottom of his heart he had all the grudges of his mother and hated the European and African immigrants who they arrived in the USA


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He said that his country was getting worse and never had to become independent from England, that all the evils were the fault of immigrants, although 2 months after the death of his mother he met Sonia Green, daughter of some Jewish immigrants from Ukraine and they started to leave, they both married in 1924, she was 44 years old and Lovecraft 10 years younger but he was an extremely literate and cultured man, the truth is that Lovecraft was a genius, and Sonia being physically similar and in character to his mother the couple It seemed to take incredibly well.


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He moved with his wife to New York, but it was difficult for him to find work, she also lost the store she had and Howard blamed the immigrants, the couple argued about that and if we add that Lovecraft was afraid of sexual relations, the marriage was condemned. They divorced and without their parents, grandfather, and the failure of their relationship, they decided to get involved in the darkness, they surrendered to sadness and took refuge in the night, fled from others, preferred to live under the moon when everyone was asleep and he could never master that side full of sadness and the next 10 years developed a different literary style, or rather a stage that the scholars of his work call: "The dream stage", their stories were developed the world of dreams, in land fantastic away from human reach.

Howard considered himself a pacifist, but he was a very classist man, he loved upper class families, he liked the fascists, the pure races and his ideas led him to study the Nordic cultures, maybe the most fanatical ones do not like to read what follows but I am afraid to tell you that Lovecraft, besides being a racist, was extremely misogynistic since the few women who appear in his works are mostly evil-doers, worshipers of evil beings, cruel and un compassionate. Some assure that more than misogynist he did not understand women and simply expressed the rejection that he received from them in his works, how it was getting worse and worse economically and socially, he felt more alone and in the worst period of life arose his best literary era.

In his darkest and saddest time, he walked among the tombs looking for inspiration, away from all he began his third stage and the most complex, that of the Myths of Cthulhu, here his imagination is overcome and he creates his original gods and dozens of creatures that they dwell on earth, like the terrible Dagon or Shub-Niggurath, whose power is infinite and unimaginable, a being whose existence transcends time and space, also created Azathoth, chaos, the antithesis of creation, a cursed god and blind man who follows the sounds, also from his mind emerges Yog-Sothoth, opener of roads, guardian of the present, past and future, possessor of all the knowledge that exists in the universe, also from the mind of Lovecraft arises the terrible Nyarlathotep, a God, unlike many others, is not hidden or trapped anywhere, he is a servant of Azathoth and enjoys causing suffering for the world.


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But the most famous of all these beings is not the most powerful, I am talking about the terrible Cthulhu, a being who came millennia ago to the earth, his face resembles that of an octopus, his body is full of scales, he possesses terrible sharp claws and it has narrow wings. Cthulhu communicates telepathically and represents the cosmic and natural forces, there is no way to master it, he could kill us in a moment and he lives in the ocean floor waiting for someone to wake him up and start his reign of chaos and destruction.


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Also from this time there is a curious fact, the mention of a fictional book that many think is real because it is described with such complexity, with so much bibliography and precision that it was thought that it was a real book, even false editions of said book.

And what is that book? It is called "The Necronomicon", and possesses all the black knowledge of humanity, with it you can awaken the ancient primal gods, contact entities and supernatural beings and if you are not careful it can lead you to madness and death.


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Speaking of death, Lovecraft, who claimed to have read it, received death after several years of economic hardship, because of intestinal cancer on March 15, 1937, was 46 years old and was becoming increasingly sick and strange, after his death began to have more and more fans and for many is an example of everything that inhabits the mind of anyone, we are so focused on the material world that we lock up the monsters, fantastic ideas, and terrors in the back of our mind .

These beings just need an oversight to get out and take us with them, they will appear in the form of nightmares while you sleep, so be careful because when you are vulnerable they will try to take you away.

Dominate the monsters of your mind or they will dominate you.

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