Abstract

Extensive biographical essay on the parents of Howard Phillips Lovecraft, and their influence on Lovecraft's life. Consolidates considerable scholarship that had been done on Winfield Scott Lovecraft and his illness to this point, and extensively cites and quotes from Lovecraft's letters.

In the 2011 edition of Epicure in the Terrible, the citations are updated.

Works Cited

Articles

• A Memoir of Lovecraft
• Did Lovecraft Have Syphilis?
• His Own Most Fantastic Creation
• Howard Phillips Lovecraft and Sex; or, The Sex Life of a Gentleman
• In Memoriam Howard Phillips Lovecraft
• Lovecraft As I Knew Him
• The Lovecraft Family in America
• Lovecraft's Sensitivity
• Medical Records of Winfield S. Lovecraft
• Memories of Lovecraft: I
• Shadows over Lovecraft
• Whipple V. Phillips and the Owyhee Land and Irrigation Company

Books

• Commonplace Book
• Exiles and Fabrications
• Lovecraft: A Biography
• Lovecraft's Library
• Lovecraft Remembered
• Marginalia
• Selected Letters of H. P. Lovecraft
• The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces
• Stern Fathers 'neath the Mould: The Lovecraft Family in Rochester
• The Unknown Lovecraft
• Winifred Virginia Jackson—Lovecraft's Lost Romance

Letters

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Periodicals

• Providence Journal 31 March 1904
• Providence Sunday Journal 19 September 1948

Thesis

• H. P. Lovecraft: An Introduction to His Life and Writings

Cited By

• Stern Fathers 'neath the Mould: The Lovecraft Family in Rochester

Included In

• An Epicure in the Terrible (1991)
• An Epicure in the Terrible (2011)
• The Parents Of Howard Phillips Lovecraft