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Howard Phillips Lovecraft (US: ; August 20, 1890–March 15, 1937) was an American writer of weird fiction and horror fiction. Born in Providence, Rhode Island, he spent most of his life there, and his fiction was primarily set against a New England backdrop. Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor, and he subsisted in progressively strained circumstances in his last years. He died of cancer at the age of 46.

Lovecraft was virtually unknown during his lifetime and published only in pulp magazines before he died in poverty, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of weird and horror fiction. Among his most celebrated tales are The Rats in the Walls, The Call of Cthulhu, At the Mountains of Madness, The Shadow over Innsmouth, and The Shadow Out of Time. His writings were the basis of the Cthulhu Mythos, which has inspired a large body of pastiches, games, music and other media drawing on Lovecraft's characters, setting and themes, constituting a wider body of work known as Lovecraftian horror.

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Polaris

H. P. Lovecrafts kronologiske værker nr. 4

"...Polaris lyser ind gennem mit nordvendte vindue med et uhyggeligt skær. Gennem hver eneste infernalske nattetime, lyser den forbandede stjerne op i det tætte, trygge mørke. Om efteråret, når nordenvindene hyler og skriger, og træerne ude i sumpen lader deres gyldne løv hviske unævnelige ting til hverandre i de tidlige morgentimer under den aftagende månes horn, så sidder jeg i vindueskarmen og betragter den kolde stjerne..." 'Polaris' var det eneste værk H.P. Lovecraft skrev dette år (1918) og novellen blev udgivet første gang i 1920 i december-nummeret af The Philosopher.
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Publish date31 Mar 2017
Published byHN Publishing
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ISBN epub9788799822669
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