Spirit of Lovecraft haunts Cambridge

Must read column in the Harvard Law School's The Record:

The approach of Halloween signals a few weeks when the otherwise deviant celebration of horror and the supernatural briefly becomes the socially accepted norm, and indulging one's tastes for ghoulish or morbid entertainment is encouraged. Few things are scarier than tales of terror set in familiar local haunts, so this is the perfect time for New Englanders to become acquainted with the works of New England's own master of the macabre, legendary author Howard Phillips Lovecraft.