All photographs by John Peyton Cooke, copyright © 2004 by John Peyton Cooke. All rights reserved.
Former residence of H. P. Lovecraft, originally 66 College Street, now 65 Prospect street, on College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island.
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Although it's delightful to read the Arkham House editions of H. P. Lovecraft, I have found it more rewarding to read the heavily annotated editions from Penguin Classics, edited and with illuminating notes from Lovecraft scholar S. T. Joshi. These editions, THE CALL OF CTHULHU AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES and THE THING ON THE DOORSTEP AND OTHER WEIRD STORIES, are classy and well thought-out in terms of story selection. One hopes more such editions will be forthcoming, but if not, we'll always have these. Although many of HPL's stories are set in fictional towns such as Arkahm, Massachusetts, others are set in such comparatively real locales as Providence and Brooklyn. |
Memorial plaque and marker honoring "H.P. Lovecraft, U.S. Author" on the front lawn of the John Hay Library at Brown University, on College Hill in Providence. |
Closer view of memorial plaque honoring "H.P. Lovecraft, U.S. Author" on the front lawn of the John Hay Library at Brown University, on College Hill in Providence, Rhode Island. |
Another view of HPL's last residence, now at 65 Prospect Street, Providence. |
65 Prospect Street (house was at 66 College Street in HPL's day). |
The house at 598 Angell Street, Providence, where HPL lived with his mother in a "5-room-and-attic flat" (one half of the house) from 1904 until 1924. |
598 Angell Street, Providence. |
598 Angell Street, Providence. |
169 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, New York. "Something unwholesome -- something furtive -- something vast lying subterrenely in obnoxious slumber -- that was the soul of 169 Clinton St. at the edge of Red Hook, and in my great northwest room 'The Horror at Red Hook' was written." --HPL in a letter to Bernard Austin Dwyer, March 26, 1927 |
The unwholesome and furtive 169 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, New York. |
169 Clinton Street, Brooklyn, New York. |
259 Parkside Avenue, Brooklyn, NY -- HPL's first residence in New York in 1924, which he shared with his new bride Sonia Greene. |
The family monument at Lovecraft's grave in Swan Point Cemetery, Providence, RI. |
Headstone of HPL's final resting place. The marker reads: HOWARD PHILIPS
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HPL's marker in front of the larger monument. |
HPL -- RIP. |
The family monument with HPL's name listed. |
