Q 01/05

Lovecraft wrote that the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of what?

A) The dark

B) The unknown

C) The grave

D) The deep

Answer · why

B) The unknown

The unknown. The line opens his essay Supernatural Horror in Literature, where he argues that this ancient dread is what earns the horror tale its dig...

Q 02/05

What do the initials in H. P. Lovecraft's name stand for?

A) Henry Peter

B) Howard Phillips

C) Harold Prescott

D) Herbert Paul

Answer · why

B) Howard Phillips

Howard Phillips. Phillips was his mother's maiden name, and when the Phillips fortune collapsed in 1904 mother and son had to leave the family mansion...

Q 03/05

Lovecraft said his father was paralysed by overwork, but the death certificate points to which disease?

A) Tuberculosis

B) Epilepsy

C) Syphilis

D) Alcoholism

Answer · why

C) Syphilis

Syphilis. The certificate gives general paresis, a late stage of the infection, and he died in an asylum five years after breaking down in a hotel roo...

Q 04/05

What name did the young Lovecraft give the faceless winged creatures of his childhood dreams?

A) Night-gaunts

B) Byakhee

C) Ghouls

D) Moon-beasts

Answer · why

A) Night-gaunts

Night-gaunts. He said they came for him night after night from about the age of six, and thirty years on he turned them loose in his fiction, where al...

Q 05/05

As a boy, Lovecraft published his own hectographed Rhode Island Journal of which science?

A) Geology

B) Astronomy

C) Chemistry

D) Meteorology

Answer · why

B) Astronomy

Astronomy. He wrote each issue by hand and ran off copies for his friends, and as a teenager he went on to write columns on the night sky for local ne...