Who is H.P. Lovecraft?

     Today, Mr. Eldridge told the class to go to http://iwl.me/ for homework. The "iwl" stands for "I write like..." and it's a website that analyzes your own prose and then compares it to famous authors, finding the closest stylistic match. 

     I checked every essay I've written in high school and tallied the results (perhaps a little too obsessively). Of the 14 authors I was matched with, 12 only appeared 1-5 times each. However, Dan Brown had 12 hits and H.P. Lovecraft had 15. Who is H.P. Lovecraft? I've never heard of him (her?)... 

     I highly recommend you check it out if you need to take a study break.