Immigrants from eastern and southern Europe arriving at Ellis Island, in New York City, in 1915.
Lovecraft’s gravestone in Providence’s beautiful Swan Point Cemetery.
“The ‘Howard’ in the entry had to be {horror, science-fiction and fantasy writer} Howard Phillips Lovecraft {1890-1937}, that twentieth-century puritanic Poe from Providence, with his regrettable but undeniable loathing of the immigrant swarms he felt were threatening the traditions and monuments of his beloved New England and the whole Eastern Seaboard.’’
― Fritz Leiber (1910-1992), American author of fantasy, horror and science- fiction tales, in Our Lady of Darkness
