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b'Third part of a three-part series. My guests and I discuss\\xa0The\\nCall of Cthulhu, the most famous story by H. P. Lovecraft featuring his\\niconic creation, and we also talk about the roleplaying game of the same name.\\n\\nwww.nobleknight.com\\n\\nLovecraft, H. P.\\xa0The Complete Works.\\n\\nH. P. Lovecraft\\n\\nborn 1890, died 1937\\n\\nBorn in Providence, RI, son of a traveling salesman and a woman\\nwho could trace her ancestry back to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. When\\nLovecraft was only 3 years old, his father was placed in a psychiatric\\ninstitution and died 5 years later, as Lovecraft himself claimed, of paralysis\\nbrought on by \\u201cnervous exhaustion.\\u201d Lovecraft\\u2019s mother suffered from hysteria\\nand depression and died at the same hospital about 23 years later.\\n\\nLovecraft was raised by his mother and his mother\\u2019s family,\\nincluding his grandfather who was a businessman. It was this grandfather who\\nencouraged him to read and interested him in tales of Gothic horror.\\n\\nLovecraft was an intelligent but sickly child who grew into a\\ngaunt, pale adult. He suffered a nervous breakdown prior to his high school\\ngraduation and never received his diploma. Although today he is regarded by\\nfans as one of the greatest literary geniuses of the 20th century, he was never\\nfinancially successful in his own time, partly due to his own unwillingness. He\\nwas friends with many other writers of his day, including most famously Robert\\nE. Howard, creator of Conan the Barbarian.\\n\\nHe was briefly married to a woman named Sonia Greene and lived\\nwith her in New York City, where he was famously miserable.\\n\\nLovecraft returned to Providence in 1926 and lived there until his\\ndeath in 1937. He was diagnosed with cancer of the small intestine and died in\\npoverty.\\n\\nToday the images of H. P. Lovecraft and his most famous creation,\\nthe monster Cthulhu, are well known to gamers. Cthulhu appears on t-shirts, in\\nboard games, card games, roleplaying games, and video games. He is credited as\\nan inspiration by many, many horror and fantasy writers, and filmmakers who\\ncame after him. And yet his name is relatively unknown outside of geek and\\ngamer culture, probably less recognizable to the general public than Edgar\\nAllen Poe and Steven King.\\n\\nMy guests:\\n\\nDan Cmil\\n\\nEric Paquette\\n\\nJeffrey Wikstrom -\\xa0The Lurking Fear\\n\\nwebsite -\\xa0jeffwik.com\\n\\nemail -\\xa0jeffwik@gmail.com\\n\\nEmail us to find out how you can get involved!\\n\\nhttp://www.thetomeshow.com\\n\\nthetomeshow@gmail.com\\n\\nGeoffrey Winn\\n\\ngdwinn@comcast.net\\n\\n\\xa0Support the show, shop below...'