A very informative and entertaining biography. It covers Lovecraft personal life, his writings and his friends. Just under 200 pages, including photographs, illustrations and excerpts from Lovecraft's correspondence. It also includes summaries of his most reputed work. I only read the summaries of the stories I had already read and skipped the others because they contained spoilers.
After reading this biography I think that Lovecraft was a natural writer, it was in his blood, and also, he wasn't good at doing other things. His life revolved around his stories and his writer friends. Now I feel compelled to read his letters.
At the end of the book, in chapter 15, Montague mentions work by modern authors who have contributed to the Cthulhu Mythos, including Jorge Luis Borges (who wrote "There are More Things" with a Lovecraftian syle) and Neil Gaiman (who wrote "I Cthulhu", in which Cthulhu dictates his biography to a human). I read both short stories and enjoyed them as well. 😃 There is also a section on films from which I have added: Re-animator by Gordon (1985), In the Mouth of Madness (1994) by Carpenter and The Call of Cthulhu (2005) by Leman and Branney in my to watch list.
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