H.P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft was an American writer of weird, horror, fantasy and science fiction, best known for creating the Cthulhu Mythos. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1890, he wrote some of his best-known stories in his final years, including The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth and The Shadow Out of Time. During his lifetime Lovecraft was published almost exclusively in pulp magazines, and he never supported himself from his writing. He died in 1937 at the age of 46.