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• I was born at 9 a.m. on August 20, 1890, at my family home at 454 (then numbered 194) Angell Street in Providence, Rhode Island. My mother was Sarah Susan Phillips Lovecraft, who could trace her ancestry to the arrival of George Phillips to Massachusetts in 1630. My father was Winfield Scott Lovecraft, a traveling salesman for Gorham & Co., Silversmiths, of Providence. When I was three my father suffered a nervous breakdown in a hotel room in Chicago and was brought back to Butler Hospital, where he remained for five years before dying on July 19, 1898. I was informed that my father was paralyzed and comatose during this period, but the surviving evidence suggests that this was not the case; it is nearly certain that my father died of paresis, a form of neurosyphilis. • With the death of my father, my upbringing fell to my mother, my two aunts, and especially my grandfather, the prominent industrialist Whipple Van Buren Phillips. I was a precocious youth: I was reciting poetry at age two, reading at age three, and writing at age six or seven. My earliest enthusiasm was for the "Arabian Nights", which I read by the age of five; it was at this time that I adapted the pseudonym of “Abdul Alhazred,” who later became the author of the mythical Necronomicon. The next year, however, my Arabian interests were eclipsed by the discovery of Greek mythology, gleaned through Bulfinch’s "Age of Fable" and through children’s versions of "The Iliad" and "Odyssey". Indeed my earliest surviving literary work, “The Poem of Ulysses” (1897), is a paraphrase of the "Odyssey" in 88 lines of internally rhyming verse. But I had by this time already discovered weird fiction, and my first story, the non-extant “The Noble Eavesdropper,” dates to as early as 1896. My interest in the weird was fostered by my grandfather, who entertained me with off-the-cuff weird tales in the Gothic mode. • As a boy I was somewhat lonely and suffered from frequent illnesses, many of them apparently psychological. My attendance at the Slater Avenue School was sporadic, but I was soaking up much information through independent reading. At about the age of eight I discovered science, first chemistry, then astronomy. I began to produce hectographed journals, The Scientific Gazette (1899-1907) and The Rhode Island Journal of Astronomy (1903-07), for distribution amongst my friends. When I entered Hope Street High School, I found both his teachers and peers congenial and encouraging, and I developed a number of long-lasting friendships with boys of my age. My first appearance in print occurred in 1906, when I wrote a letter on an astronomical matter to The Providence Sunday Journal. Shortly thereafter I began writing a monthly astronomy column for The Pawtuxet Valley Gleaner, a rural paper; I later wrote columns for The Providence Tribune (1906-08) and The Providence Evening News (1914-18), as well as The Asheville (N.C.) Gazette-News (1915). • In 1904 the death of my grandfather, and the subsequent mismanagement of his property and affairs, plunged my family into severe financial difficulties. My mother and myself were forced to move out of our lavish Victorian home into cramped quarters at 598 Angell Street. I was devastated by the loss of my birthplace, and contemplated suicide, as I took long bicycle rides and looked wistfully at the watery depths of the Barrington River. But the thrill of learning banished those thoughts. In 1908, however, just prior to my graduation from high school, I suffered a nervous breakdown that compelled me to leave school without a diploma; this fact, and my consequent failure to enter Brown University, were sources of great shame to me in later years, in spite of the fact that I was one of the most formidable autodidacts of my time. From 1908 to 1913, I was a virtual hermit, doing little save pursuing my astronomical interests and my poetry writing. During this whole period I was thrown into an unhealthily close relationship with my mother, who was still suffering from the trauma of her husband’s illness and death, and who developed a pathological love-hate relationship with me.
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