The Ill-Finished Lovecraft

"I...tried to weave them into a...shadowy phantasmagoria which...have the same...vague coherence as a cycle of traditional myth or legend - with nebulous backgrounds of Elder Forces & transgalactic entities which lurk about this infinitesimal planet...establishing outposts thereon, & occasionally brushing aside other accidental forces of life (like human beings) in order to take up full habitation." Howard Phillips Lovecraft wrote those words late in his writing career (22 September 1932). How well did he do? What factors led to his being a man born out of time, writing of demigods and unknown worlds beyond time and space?Read, "The Ill-Finished Lovecraft: Macabre to the Marrow," to find out.