One of the most influential myth-makers of our time, a man who influenced not only literature, but also popular culture as a whole, the creator of the Necronomicon and the Cthulhu Mythos is Howard Phillips Lovecraft. It was he who became the hero of this book, in his kind of unique: a biography of a writer created by another writer. In addition, numerous citations of H. P. Lovecraft's letters partly make the latter a co-author. Without making any judgments, Lion Sprague de Camp objectively tells the life story of one of the most controversial figures in world literature.