I love Lovecraft

I usually don't buy writers collections but Lovecraft deserves it.
I found a collection of all his works including some letters (some believe that his correspondence is his biggest achievement) and very rare short stories. I was struck by this writer's weird and sad life: I didn't know that he'd lost both his mother and father in a mental hospital . As a boy, Lovecraft suffered from different ailments probably because of his psychological condition. He attended school until the age of eight. Then his mother withdrew him: according to some biographers, in order to justify this she convinced him he was so ugly that he couldn't go out.. as he would scare people. After his mother's death he was raised by his two old aunts and even got married (with a woman who was 7 years older than him). He lived for a while in New York with his wife, then he returned to Providence in 1926 and spent there the rest of his brief life writing, until he died ten years later.
During his life he was relatively unknown and published his stories on pulp magazines that scarcely payed him. Today he is considered an important American writer and a master of the horror fiction by many writers and film directors such as Stephen King, Clive Barker, John Carpenter, Guillelmo del Toro and many many others. Jorge Louis Borges wrote a short story in his memory and many rock bands were inspired by his masterpieces (among them Metallica). His creatures are so real and frightening that I have often dreamt about Cthulhu, Dagon and Ghouls during my best fanciful nightmares.