The Recognition of H. P. Lovecraft: His Rise from Obscurity to World RenownDuring his lifetime, H. P. Lovecraft did not have a single book of his stories published. When he died in 1937, he probably envisioned the oblivion that would overtake his entire literary output. But in the decades that have followed, Lovecraft's fiction, essays, poetry, and letters have catapulted him to worldwide celebrity a result unprecedented in the history of literature. S. T. Joshi, a leading Lovecraft scholar and biographer, has traced the