H.P. Lovecraft 9: The Picture in the House
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H.P. Lovecraft: The Picture in the House Lorraine Claude is fascinated with the morbid and weird. It is an interest she has turned into a profitable career as a publisher of lurid non-fiction. And the most recent novel from one of her most popular authors¸ Pytr Knoll has her captivated. The book deals with lurid events committed in lonely New England farmhouses since the days of the Puritans. Claude cannot get Knoll's accounts out of her mind¸ and she decides to take a weekend drive into the New England country and explore some of these farmhouses for herself. But Claude does not count on a sudden thunderstorm driving her into the farmhouse of a very friendly and very old cannibal. Overview Along with Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King¸ Howard Phillips Lovecraft is considered one of America's most innovative and popular American horror writers. The master of the weird tale during the first decades of the 20 th Century until his premature death in 1937¸ Lovecraft's distinctive style and canon of work has influenced as many authors as the stories of Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett. Lovecraft's earliest published work¸ Herbert West: Re-Animator ¸ was turned into the 1985 cult classic film¸ Reanimator.