Looking for a newfangled home ? Thisone - bedroom apartmentinside a prudish house in Providence , Rhode Island , boasts hardwood floors , gamy ceilings , and off - street parking . It ’s a five - second walk of life to Brown University , and it has basement laundry facility . Did wemention it ’s also locate inside a home where H.P. Lovecraft used to live ?
The godfather of pulp horrorwas born inProvidence . away from a two - twelvemonth Erolia minutilla in New York City , Lovecraft spent most of his life in New England , writing magazine pieces and novel that often drew inhalation from his real - living surround .
In 1924 , Lovecraft espouse a woman named Sonia Greene , from whom he ’d later disjoined . He moved with her to Brooklyn , but he disliked New York so much he came back to his birth urban center after only two old age .
Upon his return to Providence , Lovecraft moved in with his two elderly auntie , wholived in a houseon 10 Barnes Street . There , the burgeon authorspent the next seven yearswriting some of his most famous history , include “ The Call of Cthulhu . ” He also used the domicile ’s savoir-faire as that of Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett in his posthumously bring out novel , The Case of Charles Dexter Ward , which was set in Providence .
before long after he arrived at Barnes Street , Lovecraft described his accommodations in a letter of the alphabet to a ally . “ As for the place — I have a fine big ground - floor room ( a former dining elbow room with fireplace ) and kitchenette bay in a spacious brown Victorian wooden mansion at the 1880 flow — a house , curiously enough , work up by some friends of my own family , now long dead , ” Lovecraft wrote .
The Barnes Street abode is currently list on Craigslist , and can be rented for $ 965 a month . moving picture show a large , aerial residence fill with light — hardly the eccentric of place you ’d expect a colored , twisted mind like Lovecraft ’s to inhabit . Just attempt to seduce the lease before a bunch of Brown University English majors pulsate you to it . And be careful not to operate into Lovecraft ’s ghost , who has reportedly been spotted roaming the apartment .
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