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Also Known As Howard Phillips Lovecraft
Born August 20, 1890 • Providence • Rhode Island
Died March 15, 1937 (aged 46) • Providence • Rhode Island
Notable Works “At the Mountains of Madness” • “Call of Cthulhu, The”

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