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H.P. Lovecraft

The American master of horror fiction was as peculiar in his life as he was in his writing.

Among the presents that came Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s way during the Christmas season of 1936 was a skull from an Indian burial ground. The gift was appropriate for a lifelong connoisseur of the weird.

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