1890/08/20 |
I was born on the 20th of August, 1890, at No 454 (then No 194) Angell Street (razed 1961), in the city of Providence. This was the home of my mother's family. My parents' actual residence at the time being in Dorchester, MA. - HPL |
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Providence, RI |
Rhode Island |
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1896/00/00 |
HPL and his mother spend two weeks at her uncle James Wheaton Phillips' farm on Johnson Road (Abraham Place - J Whipple Phillips House). They will visit again in 1908. |
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Moosup Valley Historic District |
Foster, RI |
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1904/00/00 |
In 1904 the death of my beloved maternal grandfather broke up the home at 454 Angell St, and caused my mother and myself to take our present smaller quarters at No 598 on the same thoroughfare. - HPL letter to Maurice Moe, 1 January 1915 |
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HP Lovecraft House |
Providence, RI |
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1907/00/00 |
H P Lovecraft gives an illustrated astronomical lecture in the vestry of the First Baptist Meetinghouse to the Boy's Club |
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First Baptist Meetinghouse |
Providence, RI |
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1908/05/00 |
Prior to his high school graduation, H P Lovecraft suffers what he later described as a "nervous collapse" and "a sort of breakdown". Though he intended to attend Brown University after high school, he never graduated and never attended school again. |
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1919/11/00 |
H P Lovecraft's short story "Dagon" is published in The Vagrant. An amateur publication published and edited by W Paul Cook, The Vagrant operated from 1915 to 1927. |
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Dagon (short story) |
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1920/00/00 |
H P Lovecraft's aunt, Lillian Delora Phillips Clark, works as a live-in caregiver or housekeeper at 135 Benefit Street, 1919-1920. |
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Stephen Harris House |
Providence, RI |
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1922/02/00 |
Serialization of H P Lovecraft's novella "Herbert West-Reanimator" begins in the amateur publication Home Brew. |
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Herbert West-Reanimator |
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1924/03/01 |
H P Lovecraft's short story "The Rats in the Walls" is published. |
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The Rats in the Walls |
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1924/03/03 |
Sonia Haft Greene marries Howard Phillips Lovecraft at St Paul's Church, New York, NY. |
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St Paul's Chapel |
New York City |
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Marriage of Sonia Greene and H P Lovecraft |
1924/05/00 |
Harry Houdini and H P Lovecraft's short story "Imprisoned with the Pharaohs" is published in Weird Tales as "Entombed with the Pharaohs". |
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Imprisoned with the Pharaohs (Short Story) |
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1925/09/01 |
H P Lovecraft's short story "The Temple" is published in Weird Tales No 24. |
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The Temple (Lovecraft story) |
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1926/04/17 |
H P Lovecraft moves back to Providence and lives at 10 Barnes Street north of Brown University. |
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College Hill Historic District |
Providence, RI |
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1926/10/20 |
In a letter to Frank Belknap Long, HPL tells of his visit to Foster with his aunt Annie. HPL and Annie visit the house where his mother and his maternal grandmother were born. The topography of Foster RI is similar to the features in "The Silver Key". |
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The Silver Key |
Foster, RI |
Rhode Island |
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1927/03/00 |
Lovecraft completes the "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward". |
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward |
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1928/02/01 |
H P Lovecraft's short story "The Call of Cthulhu" is published. |
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The Call of Cthulhu |
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1930/02/24 |
Lovecraft begins writing "The Whisperer in Darkness". |
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The Whisperer in Darkness |
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1931/03/22 |
From 24 February to 22 Mar 1931, H P Lovecraft writes the novella "At the Mountains of Madness". |
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At The Mountains of Madness (book) |
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1931/05/00 |
Lovecraft visits Whitehead, rector of the Church of the Good Shepherd, 639 Edgewater Dr, Dunedin. Lovecraft may have helped Whitehead with Bothon, or as some believe, it was written by August Derleth based on a synopsis found among Whitehead's papers. |
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Bothon |
Dunedin |
Florida |
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1931/08/01 |
"The Whisperer in Darkness" by H P Lovecraft is published in Weird Tales. |
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The Whisperer in Darkness |
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1931/11/06 |
If I had any promontory specifically in mind when writing that tale, it was the headland near Gloucester called 'Mother Ann' - though that has no such relation to the city as my mysterious cliff has to Kingsport. - HPL letter to August Derleth |
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The Strange High House in the Mist (short story) |
Eastern Point Light Station |
Gloucester, MA |
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1933/07/26 |
The Sargent etc house must have given you an excellent idea of a typical middle-period colonial interior.... (H P Lovecraft Letter to Miss Helen V Sully) |
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Sargent House Museum |
Gloucester, MA |
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1934/05/07 |
R H Barlow admirably types up a neat copy of the first 201 entries in H P Lovecraft's notebook, "Commonplace Book". |
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Commonplace Book (Lovecraft) |
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1936/02/00 |
"At The Mountains of Madness" is syndicated in the February, March and April issues of Astounding Stories. |
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At The Mountains of Madness (book) |
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1936/04/01 |
H P Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" is published. |
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The Shadow Over Innsmouth |
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1936/06/01 |
H P Lovecraft's novella "The Shadow Out of Time" is published. |
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The Shadow Out of Time |
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1937/03/15 |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft dies of cancer of the small intestine. He is interned at Swan Point Cemetery, Providence. |
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Swan Point Cemetery |
Providence, RI |
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1940/11/01 |
Zealia Bishop and H P Lovecraft's novella "The Mound" is published. |
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The Mound |
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1941/05/00 |
H P Lovecraft's novel "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" is serialized in Weird Tales magazine, May and July 1941. |
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The Case of Charles Dexter Ward |
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