Abstract

Important early biographical examination of H. P. Lovecraft. Scott drew on Lovecraft's letters, autobiographical writings, the memoirs from his friends, accounts from Lovecraft's surviving friends and family, and some relatively obscure literary reviews and references. While not completely accurate and largely superseded by later biographies, it remains an influential source of original research. First published in Marginalia (1944), which version Scott noted as highly deficient with regard to Lovecraft's marriage. Subsequent to being published, Scott made contact with Sonia Davis, Lovecraft's ex-wife, and revised the essay in accordance with her memoirs, the revised version first appearing in Exiles and Fabrications (1961).

Works Cited

Books

• The Letters of Hart Crane

Articles

• A Memoir of Lovecraft
• Howard Phillips Lovecraft as His Wife Remembers Him (revised)

Periodicals

• The Age Literary Supplement 1 Jan 1955

Cited By

Articles

• Dystopia as Utopia: Howard Phillips Lovecraft and the Unknown Content of American Horror Literature
• H. P. Lovecraft In Hawthornian Perspective
• Lovecraft Criticism: A Study
• On The Literary Influences Which Shaped Lovecraft's Works
• The Parents Of Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• Synchronistic Worlds: Lovecraft and Borges

Included In

• Exiles and Fabrications (revised)
• Lovecraft Remembered (revised)
• Marginalia (original)