The great horror and science fiction writer H. P. (Howard Phillips) Lovecraft's writing has been adapted into film, including Hellraiser and the Re-animator, gave  us memorable characters including Cthulhu, and wrote about the Neconomicon, a fictional book of magic that appears in numerous writings and figures into the Evil Dead movies. Stephen King has referred to Lovecraft as "the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."

The author spent much of his life in Providence, Rhode Island. NOT followed along on the Lovecraft tour of Providence.

Lovecraft's grave still brings offerings from fans. NOT quickly moved on to avoid being an "offering" to the author.

There were less offerings around the family plot marker though.

The memorial to Lovecraft is at the John Hay Library at Brown University, which houses the largest collection of Lovecraft manuscripts in the world.

The Halsey House long had a reputation as being haunted, an influence upon Lovecraft  as it served as the Ward House in his "The Case of Chares Dexter Ward".

While not exactly Lovecraft-ian, this nearby fountain definitely seems influenced by Lovecraft (or influenced Lovecraft) and could be a portal to another realm.

Somehow though, Cthulhu, a character that was described as causing abject terror in others, seems to lose something in being a stuffed animal. But maybe it's a meeting of the great stuffed minds here - NOT and Cthulhu.