Lovecraft Appeared in More Than 300 Plays Including The Life of Peter, Muckrock and The Man from the Muckwind

 85 Years Ago Today

Monday 15th of March 1937
Horror fiction writer H. P. Howard Philips Lovecraft dies of cancer of the small intestine at the age of 47 in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

Lovecraft appeared in more than 300 plays including The Life of Peter, Muckrock, and The Man from the Muckwind; in the play, Mucky Steppes, was a member of the American Horror Story Hall of Fame. He is survived by his wife of 30, Lillie, daughter of the late Frank H. Philips, grandson of the late Frank Phillips, and six sons and sisters. (See his Wikipedia entry for H.P. Howard Philips Lovecraft and his wife Lillie Philips Phillips Lovecraft, (1868) "The Life of Muckrock" (1926), and this biography from Harper Collins, Inc., (1954), with an added excerpt from Muckrock. (2) "Bewitched" (1916). On a page about Howard and his first reading of Lovecraft's works, we find a letter from a Lovecraft friend who told us that Howard wrote to him as of January 1942: "A letter has been received from a reader who has already heard of Lovecraft. He told me that I must get hold of Lovecraft's works in London. Lovecraft's works are published in the London press, which is very bad for any English novelist when he is such a prolific scholar."