The first volume of The Eyrie, a collection of pulp authors, is an anthology of 17 terror stories by H.P. Lovecraft. Throughout his adult life, Lovecraft was never able to support himself from earnings as an author and editor. He was virtually unknown during his lifetime and was almost exclusively published in pulp magazines before he died in poverty at the age of 46, but is now regarded as one of the most significant 20th-century authors of supernatural horror fiction. Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( 1890 - 1937) was an American writer of weird and horror fiction, who is known for his creation of what became known as the Cthulhu Mythos.