Happy Birthday, Howard

Today is the birthday of the man who gave us Cthulhu... HP Lovecraft was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1890.

Just before dawn Arcturus winks ruddily from above the cemetery on the low hillock, and Coma Berenices shimmers weirdly afar off in the mysterious east; but still the Pole Star leers down from the same place in the black vault, winking hideously like an insane watching eye which strives to convey some strange message, yet recalls nothing save that it once had a message to convey. Sometimes, when it is cloudy, I can sleep. (Polaris)

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