Incipit

Autobiography: Some Notes on a Nonentity For me, the chief difficulty of writing an autobiography is finding anything of importance to put in it. My existence has been a quiet, uneventful, and undistinguished one; and at best must sound woefully flat and tame on paper. I was born in Providence, R.I.—where, but for two minor interruptions, I have ever since lived—on August 20, 1890; of old Rhode Island stock on my mother’s side, and of a Devonshire paternal line domiciled in New York State since 1827. The interests which have led me to fantastic fiction were very early in appearing, for as f …

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PersonnagesAbdul Alhazred (1), Erich Zann (1), Herbert West (1)

DivinitésCthulhu (1), Dagon (1), Yog-Sothoth (1)

CréaturesLes Maigres Bêtes de la nuit (1)

LieuxProvidence (2), Salem (2), Arkham (1), Kingsport (1), L’Antarctique (1), La Nouvelle-Orléans (1), Yuggoth (1)

ObjetsLe Necronomicon (1)

EntourageClark Ashton Smith (1), Frank Belknap Long (1)