During a jaunt through New England in June 2007, my husband and I wandered through a sprawling cemetery in Providence and found the tombstone of one H.P. Lovecraft - horror and "weird fiction" writer extraordinaire. You might assume he would have a creepy old crypt, complete with cracks, cobwebs, and carvings of tentacle-faced creatures, but all he has is this humble tombstone. Fortunately, we had brought a statue of Cthulhu with us, and we snapped these pictures:

The tombstone reads:

Howard Phillips Lovecraft
August 20 1890
March 15 1937
I am Providence

Since Lovecraft assumed his writing was destined for obscurity (and that his name would be long forgotten), he'd probably be amazed that 70 years after his death, someone would take a picture of his tombstone along with a statue of a character he'd created...