H.P. Lovecraft Net Worth
H.P. Lovecraft Net Worth is
$1.5 Million
H.P. Lovecraft Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Born in Providence, Lovecraft was a sickly child whose parents died insane. When he was 16, he wrote the astronomy column in the Providence Tribune. Between 1908 and 1923, he wrote short stories for Weird Tales magazine, among others. He died in Providence, in poverty, on March 15, 1937. His most famous novel is considered to be "At the Mountains ... | Full Name | H. P. Lovecraft |
| Date Of Birth | August 20, 1890 |
| Died | March 15, 1937, Providence, Rhode Island, United States, December 26, 1972, Sunnyvale, California, United States |
| Place Of Birth | Providence, Rhode Island, USA |
| Height | 5' 10¾" (1.8 m) |
| Profession | Writer |
| Education | Hope High School |
| Nationality | American, Ukrainian |
| Spouse | Sonia Greene, H. P. Lovecraft, Samuel Greene |
| Children | Carol Weld |
| Parents | Winfield Scott Lovecraft, Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, Racille Shafirkin, Simyon Shafirkin |
| Nominations | Locus Award for Best Non-Fiction, Locus Award for Best Collection, Retro Hugo Award for Best Fan Writer |
| Movies | H.P. Lovecraft's: Necronomicon, Re-Animator, From Beyond, Dagon, Castle Freak, The Haunted Palace, The Resurrected, Die, Monster, Die!, The Call of Cthulhu, Cthulhu, Bride of Re-Animator, The Dunwich Horror, The Whisperer in Darkness, The Unnamable, Curse, Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft,... |
| Star Sign | Leo |
| # | Quote |
|---|---|
| 1 | The world is indeed comic, but the joke is on mankind. |
| 2 | I shall never be very merry or very sad, for I am more prone to analyze than to feel. |
| 3 | From even the greatest of horrors, irony is seldom absent. |
| 4 | The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. |
| 5 | [epitaph in his gravestone]: I am Providence. |
| 6 | The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. |
| 7 | [1921] It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may. Personally I would not care for immortality in the least. There is nothing better than oblivion, since in oblivion there is no wish unfulfilled. We had it before we were born, yet did not complain. Shall we whine because we know it will return? It is Elysium enough for me, at any rate. |
| # | Fact |
|---|---|
| 1 | He always wrote the drafts of his stories by hand, because he hated typing. Whenever he could, he would have someone else type his manuscripts for him. |
| 2 | Lovecraft had a particular fondness for ice cream and had, in general, a notable sweet tooth. He loved coffee too, especially when highly sugared. Baked beans, spaghetti, cheese note and roast turkey were also favorites. |
| 3 | He openly hated New York City and spoke at length about his dislike for it but stayed there often and spent so much time exploring neighborhoods with friends that he had trouble getting work done. |
| 4 | He was a known xenophobe, racist and anti-Semite. Even after marrying Sonia Greene who was Jewish, he was still fond of making anti-Semitic remarks much to her chagrin. |
| 5 | Never actually finished high school, a fact which bothered him clear up to his death. |
| 6 | Was close friends with writer Frank Belknap Long. |
| 7 | Had an active correspondence with writer Robert E. Howard. |
| 8 | Suffered two nervous breakdowns before he was fifteen. |
| 9 | Played a harmonica-like instrument called a zobo. |
| 10 | His wife, Sonia Haft Shifirkin Greene, was seven years his senior. |
| 11 | His father's insanity was most likely caused by syphilis. |
| 12 | Because he was a sensitive child, his mother and grandfather indulged him, so Lovecraft very early gained a fondness for sweets that remained with him all his life. |
| 13 | Was raised by his grandfather and mother, and to a certain extent by his aunts, after his father's hospitalization. |
| 14 | The Vision Bleak, a German horror metal band, dedicated the album "Carpathia, A Dramatic Poem" (2005) to Lovecraft. They also made other references, such as a track being called "Kutulu!". Numerous other rock bands have paid musical tribute to HPL and the Mythos, most notably Metallica in "The Thing That Should Not Be" and the 1960's American band H.P. Lovecraft. |
| 15 | Is notorious as being the 20th Century's most prolific letter writer scripting somewhere between 40,000 to 100,000 letters within his lifetime. |
| 16 | Inspired modern-day stories of success such as Stephen King ("The Shining"), John Carpenter ("In the Mouth of Madness"), Robert Bloch ("Psycho"), Clive Barker ("Hellraiser") and Anne Rice ("Interview with the Vampire"). |
| 17 | It has been said by one biographer that he was literally "cold blooded" due to a very rare, and still little-understood affliction called poikilothermism, making him feel cold to the touch. However this is probably untrue, and basically disproved by biographer T. S. Joshi, seeing as poikilothermism is not a disease, but a characteristic of certain non-mammals such as reptiles, and is only commonly seen in mammals as a symptom of rabies, which it is highly unlikely Lovecraft suffered from. The belief that he was poikilothermic is a common misconception, however. |
| 18 | Was known to remain awake for prolonged periods of time, often 36 hours straight, without showing the slightest signs of fatigue or irritability. In one case, in order to meet a deadline, he had to stay awake for 60 hours straight in order to complete a story. |
| 19 | Wrote the short story "Imprisoned With The Pharaohs" as a ghostwriter for Harry Houdini. But on the day he brought it in person, he left the original copy at the train station, but fortunately had a copy saved at home. So somewhere in Providence there was a story titled "Under the Pyramids" by Lovecraft floating around. |
| 20 | Responsible for creating the nucleus of the "Cthulhu Mythos," a cycle of loosely-related stories that he (and other writers including Robert Bloch, August Derleth, Robert Howard, Clark Ashton Smith, and Brian Lumley) conceived that concerned the "Great Old Ones," beings from outer space who took up residence on Earth to cause havoc. Ironically, although Lovecraft was an atheist (having renounced his family's Baptist faith at an early age), the mythos' stories have spawned a sort of pseudo-religion among the very hard-core readers of his stories, including the Temple of Set and the Esoteric Order of Dagon. |
| 21 | The statuette for the World Fantasy Award is a bust of Lovecraft, in honor of his writing. The award is informally referred to as a Howard. |
| 22 | One of his other inventions, the fictitious Miskatonic University, appears prominently in his tales, and its library is often where the evil Necronomicon can be found. |
| 23 | His fictitious book, the Necronomicon, is referred to in many of his stories -- allegedly written by "The Mad Arab" in the eighth century and containing horrendous spells, evil workings and Dark Things Best Left Alone. In a bizarre literary reversal, several people have written and published imaginative full-length editions, giving this mythical work a macabre, eldritch life of its own. |
| 24 | Buried in Swan Point Cemetery. |
| 25 | Universally considered to be the father of modern horror. |
Writer
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Innsmouth Legacy | 2004 | Short short story | |
| 13:de mars 1941 | 2004 | Short inspiration | |
| Angry and Moist: An Undead Chronicle | 2004 | Short short story | |
| Tomb of Terror | 2004 | Video story "The Lurking Fear" - segment "Infinite Evil" | |
| The Halfway House | 2004 | inspiration - uncredited | |
| La casa sfuggita | 2003 | Video short stories | |
| Pickman's Model | 2003 | Short short story | |
| The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath | 2003 | short story | |
| The Thing on the Doorstep | 2003 | short story | |
| Beyond Re-Animator | 2003 | characters | |
| An Imperfect Solution: A Tale of the Re-Animator | 2003 | Short story "Herbert West: Re-Animator" | |
| The Picture in the House | 2003 | Short original story | |
| The Evil Clergymen | 2002 | Short short story | |
| The Music of Erica Zann | 2002 | short story | |
| Corpse-O-Rama | 2001 | Video characters | |
| Dagon | 2001 | short stories "Dagon" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" | |
| Unknown Beyond | 2001 | Video mythology | |
| Nyarlathotep | 2001 | Short short story | |
| Le peuple ancien | 2001 | Short story "The Very Old Folk" | |
| Rough Magik | 2000 | TV Short work | |
| Chilean Gothic | 2000 | story "Pickman's Model" | |
| Cthulhu | 2000 | ideas | |
| Cool Air | 1999 | Short story | |
| Return to Innsmouth | 1999 | Video short short story | |
| Mystery of the Necronomicon: Book of the Dead | 1999 | Video inspiration | |
| Out of Mind: The Stories of H.P. Lovecraft | 1998 | TV Movie inspiration | |
| The Outsider | 1998 | Short short story | |
| Bleeders | 1997 | short story "The Lurking Fear" - uncredited | |
| From Beyond | 1997 | Short original story | |
| The Hound | 1997 | Short based on a story by | |
| Calls for Cthulhu | 1996 | Video short character: Cthulhu | |
| Cthulhu Wore Tennis Shoes | 1996 | Short characters | |
| Castle Freak | 1995 | Video story "The Outsider" | |
| Lurking Fear | 1994 | short story | |
| The Outsider | 1994/II | Short short story | |
| Necronomicon: Book of Dead | 1993 | stories The Rats in the Walls, Cool Air and The Whisperer in Darkness | |
| Splatterhouse 3 | 1993 | Video Game characters | |
| Call of Cthulhu: Shadow of the Comet | 1993 | Video Game characters and universe | |
| The Unnamable II: The Statement of Randolph Carter | 1992 | characters | |
| Insumasu o ouu Kage | 1992 | TV Movie book | |
| Splatterhouse 2 | 1992 | Video Game characters | |
| La mansión de los Cthulhu | 1992 | inspiration | |
| Shatterbrain | 1991 | story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" | |
| Dark Heritage | 1989 | story "The Lurking Fear" - uncredited | |
| Bride of Re-Animator | 1989 | characters | |
| Splatterhouse: Wanpaku Graffiti | 1989 | Video Game characters | |
| Pulse Pounders | 1988 | story "The Evil Clergyman" | |
| The Unnamable | 1988 | short story - as Howard Phillips Lovecraft | |
| Epikindyni zoni | 1988 | Short short story | |
| The Testimony of Randolph Carter | 1987 | ||
| The Curse | 1987 | story "The Colour Out of Space" - uncredited | |
| From Beyond | 1986 | short story | |
| Re-Animator | 1985 | story "Herbert West, Re-Animator" | |
| Il fascino dell'insolito | 1982 | TV Series short story "The Thing on the Door Step" - 1 episode | |
| La chiave d'argento | 1982 | TV Movie short story "The Silver Key" | |
| Pickman's Model | 1981 | Short story | |
| The House by the Cemetery | 1981 | inspiration - uncredited | |
| The Music of Erich Zann | 1980 | Short short story | |
| City of the Living Dead | 1980 | inspiration - uncredited | |
| Screamers | 1979 | story "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" - uncredited | |
| Night Gallery | TV Series short story "Cool Air" - 1 episode, 1971 short story - 1 episode, 1971 | ||
| The Dunwich Horror | 1970 | based on the story by | |
| Curse of the Crimson Altar | 1968 | story "The Dreams in the Witch House" - uncredited | |
| The Shuttered Room | 1967 | book | |
| Die, Monster, Die! | 1965 | from "The Colour Out of Space" | |
| The Haunted Palace | 1963 | and a story "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward" by | |
| Sandra Munt y la Daga de Kenhotep | 2019 | inspired by the works of announced | |
| Sandra Munt y la Sociedad Thule | 2018 | inspired by announced | |
| Psychopompos | 2017 | based on a dramatic poem by post-production | |
| Skuggan över Innfyr | 2017 | inspired by post-production | |
| Arkham Sanitarium | post-production | ||
| Colonizer | inspired by announced | ||
| El extraño caso de Lucio Belmonte | Short inspired by filming | ||
| From Beyond | based on the short story by pre-production | ||
| Miskatonic | book announced | ||
| Sandra Munt | 2016 | TV Short inspired by | |
| The Music of Erich Zann | 2016 | Short source | |
| The Fantasmagori | 2016 | TV Series short story - 1 episode | |
| H.P. Lovecraft's the Beast in the Cave | 2016 | Short story | |
| Azathoth | 2016 | Short original story | |
| L'Appel de Cthulhu | 2015 | TV Mini-Series uncredited | |
| El extraño que surgió del abismo | 2015 | Short inspired by | |
| Strange Aeons | TV Mini-Series short based on "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by - 3 episodes, 2015 based on the novella "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" by - 1 episode, 2014 | ||
| 13 Weird Stories | 2015 | based on a story by - segment "A Cor que Caiu do Espaço" | |
| The Last Case of August T. Harrison | 2015 | inspired by the writings of - uncredited | |
| H.P. Lovecraft the Game: Terrible Old Man | 2015 | Short inspired by | |
| The Haunter of the Dark | 2015 | original story | |
| La noche del océano | 2015 | Short | |
| From Beyond | 2014/I | Short writer | |
| Memory | 2014/I | Short writer | |
| The Deep End | 2014 | Short inspired by | |
| Call Girl of Cthulhu | 2014 | inspired by the works of | |
| El modelo de Pickman | 2014 | Short based on a story by | |
| Miskatonic University | 2014 | Short inspired by | |
| The Deep Ones | 2013 | Short inspired by | |
| Subb Niggurath | 2013 | Short based on the works of | |
| Pickman's Model | 2012 | Short short | |
| Muerte cerebral | 2012 | Short characters | |
| Night Gaunts | 2012 | Short inspired by the works of | |
| The Music of Jo Hyeja | 2012 | Short original story by | |
| In Between | 2012/IV | Short inspired by | |
| The Shadow Out of Time | 2012 | Short story | |
| The Terrible Old Man | 2012 | Short original story | |
| H.P. Lovecraft's The Silver Key | 2011 | Short story | |
| Shadow Beyond Time | 2011 | Short novellas "The Shadow Out of Time" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth" | |
| Shadow of the Unnamable | 2011 | Short short story | |
| The Curse of Yig | 2011 | Short original story | |
| The Whisperer in Darkness | 2011 | story | |
| Hunters of the Dark | 2011 | Short inspired by the works of | |
| Mr. Noyes | 2010 | Short | |
| Three Shadows | 2010 | short story The Shuttered Room | |
| Innsbay | 2010 | Short story | |
| Nekromania | 2010 | Short novel | |
| The Color Out of Space | 2010 | short story | |
| Tähdet ovat väärin | 2010 | Video mythology | |
| The Valdemar Legacy II: The Forbidden Shadow | 2010 | inspired by the works of | |
| Fyren | 2010 | Short inspired by | |
| The Picture in the House | 2010 | Short short story | |
| Pickman's Muse | 2010 | inspired by "Haunter of the Dark" | |
| The Horror Vault 3 | 2010 | Video inspired by the works of | |
| Vigor Mortis | 2010 | Short story | |
| La herencia Valdemar | 2010 | inspired by the works of | |
| The Silver Key | 2010 | Short story | |
| Ex Oblivione | 2009 | Short story / writer | |
| The Dunwich Horror | 2009 | TV Movie story | |
| The Music of Erich Zann | 2009/II | Short short story | |
| The Picture in the House | 2009 | Video short short story | |
| The Music of Erich Zann | 2009/I | Short story | |
| The Horror Vault 2 | 2009 | Video inspired by the works of | |
| The Statement of Randolph Carter | 2008 | Short short story | |
| Colour from the Dark | 2008 | story | |
| The Book | 2008/II | Short after: short stories "The Book" and "The Descendant" | |
| Beyond the Dunwich Horror | 2008 | short story | |
| Re-Animator: 1942 | 2008 | Short story | |
| Pickman's Model | 2008 | Video short story | |
| The Whisperer in Darkness | 2007 | short story | |
| The Statement | 2007 | Short short story "The Statement of Randolph Carter" | |
| H.P. Lovecraft's The Terrible Old Man | 2007 | Short story | |
| H.P. Lovecraft's Dunwich Horror and Other Stories | 2007 | short stories | |
| The Tomb | 2007 | Video short story | |
| Cthulhu | 2007 | book | |
| Kammaren | 2007 | inspiration | |
| Beyond Lovesauce | 2007 | Short inspiration | |
| Chill | 2007 | Video short story "Cool Air" | |
| Sherlock Holmes: The Awakened | 2006 | Video Game ideas | |
| Dunwich | 2006 | Short short story | |
| The Other Gods | 2006 | Video short short story | |
| Cool Air | 2006 | Video short story | |
| The Rats in the Walls | 2006 | ||
| From Beyond | 2006 | Short short story | |
| The Horror of H.P. Lovecraft | 2006 | story & inspiration | |
| Beyond the Wall of Sleep | 2006 | story | |
| The Mountains of Madness | 2006 | Video short stories | |
| Masters of Horror | 2005 | TV Series short story - 1 episode | |
| Die Musik des Erich Zann | 2005 | Short short story | |
| ReCreation | 2005 | Short inspiration | |
| The Call of Cthulhu | 2005 | short story | |
| The Statement of Randolph Carter | 2005 | Short short story | |
| Strange Aeons: The Thing on the Doorstep | 2005 | short story | |
| Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth | 2005 | Video Game characters and story | |
| Asleep in the Deep | 2005 | Short story |
Thanks
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Doctor Stein | Video thanks for inspiration filming | ||
| The Greater Evil | 2015 | Short special thanks | |
| Subb Niggurath | 2013 | Short in memory of | |
| The Oohs | 2012 | Short acknowledgment | |
| The Pain of Creation | 2011 | Short special thanks for inspiration | |
| Vallenegro | 2007 | Short special thanks | |
| Kammaren | 2007 | special thanks | |
| The Horror of H.P. Lovecraft | 2006 | special thanks | |
| Read Me a Story | 2005 | Short special thanks | |
| 13:de mars 1941 | 2004 | Short thanks | |
| The Halfway House | 2004 | special thanks - as Howard Phillips Lovecraft | |
| Castle Freak | 1995 | Video special thanks |
Known for movies
Re-Animator (1985)
as Writer
Dagon (2001)
as Writer
From Beyond (1986)
as Writer
Bride of Re-Animator (1989)
as Writer