H. P. Lovecraft Quotes
It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to show by this statement that I am not his murderer.
Lovecraft, H. P. "The Thing on the Doorstep." Weird Tales, vol. 29, no. 1, Jan. 1937, p. 52.
Mandelstam was later sent to a Soviet gulag for writing a poem denouncing Stalin. He died there.
Nathaniel Bacon had led a rebellion in Virginia and had routed the Governor’s troops and caused him to flee leaving control of Virginia to Bacon and his followers who were far more democratic and advanced. However Bacon succumbed to swamp fever, and his followers could not hold the colony together giving the Governor a chance to establish his authority. He then went on a vengeful reign of terror, executing all of Bacon’s followers he could get his hands on. With no danger to the authority of the Crown, King Charles felt that Berkeley had gone too far. The King’s father Charles I had been executed in the aftermath of the English Civil War, but he had executed far fewer than Berkely had done in Virginia.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became known as the Cthulhu Mythos.
