

Lovecraft stayed in New York, supported by an allowance she sent monthly. In 1925, she took a job that required her to move to Cleveland and then travel constantly. Greene’ health declined, however, and her business failed. He gained weight and his health improved, and he found a group of literary acquaintances who encouraged him and helped him publish his work. Greene was a businesswoman with independent means who had self-financed several amateur publications she felt strongly that Lovecraft desperately needed to escape his family, and convinced him to move with her to Brooklyn, where she promised to support him so he could pursue his writing.

Illustration on page 159 of the pulp magazine Weird Tales (Feb 1928, vol.

His mother, Saran Susan "Susie" Phillips, was often described as lacking affection, and frequently referred to her son as "hideous." His father, Winfield Scott Lovecraft, was institutionalized when Lovecraft was 3 years old, and died of complications stemming from syphilis when he was 8, leaving him solely in the care of Susie. Howard Phillips Lovecraft was born in 1890 into an affluent family in Rhode Island.
