![]() ![]() Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Aug– March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. ![]() Lovecraft who would be celebrating his 125th birthday were he still alive today. ![]() And as it turns out, these were also the stories that thrilled the now venerated writer of horror fiction, H.P. The Tell-Tale Heart, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Mask of the Red Death - these were the stories that thrilled me. When it came to the subject matter, Argentine Jorge Luis Borges became the writer whose stories most enthralled me.īut when I reflect on my earliest efforts at writing stories while in high school, it was Edgar Allen Poe who first stimulated my imagination. I've often shared how Hemingway's stories so moved me that I studied them with the aim of learning how to write with greater force. What we respond to, what resonates with us, can be useful for understanding or revealing who we are, or who we aspire to be. When interviewing writers and artists I am often interested in a person's influences. ![]()
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