There are so many strange gossips about Howard Phillips Lovecraft, one of the greatest writers not only in the United States, but also in all world literature of the 20th century, that you are simply amazed. For example, they claim that he hated people, preferring cats to them, and did not communicate with anyone, leaving the house only for night walks. And this is about a man who, by the end of his life, had more than ninety “pen pals” alone! And there is also the obligatory story about hatred and disgust for women - about a man who for a number of years was quite happily married and divorced not of his own free will, but at the request of his wife. About a man who had many female friends, whom they fell in love with, whom they almost idolized, but who all his life remained faithful to only one - his only wife and lover. And, finally, the pinnacle of all gossip and myths is the story of the “great initiate,” a member of the Masonic and occult orders, who preached “great and hidden secrets” in his writings. The Lovecraft myth has almost nothing in common with his real life. And yet he continues to live and thrive. This book does not pretend to defeat myth. He single-handedly created an entire mythology. And he himself became a myth.