H P Lovecraft was born in 1890 in Providence Rhode Island where he lived most of his life He wrote many essays and poems early in his career but gradually focused on the writing of horror stories after the advent in 1923 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales to which he contributed most of his fiction His relatively small corpus of fictionthree short novels and about sixty short storieshas nevertheless exercised a wide influence on subsequent work in the field and he is regarded as the leading twentiethcentury American author of supernatural fiction H P Lovecraft died in Providence in 1937 Contents The Lurking Fear The Beast in the Cave The Alchemist The Tomb Beyond the Wall of Sleep Memory The Transition of Juan Romero The White Ship The Terrible Old Man Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and his Family The Street The Temple The Tree From Beyond Nyarlathotep The Picture in the House Ex Oblivione The Quest of Iranon The MoonBog The Outsider The Music of Erich Zann Hypnos Azathoth What the Moon Brings The Rats in the Walls He In the Vault Cool Air The Descendant The Very Old Folk The Book The Evil Clergyman