Butler Hospital

Butler Hospital

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Butler Hospital

This is probably the most terrifying building in Lovecraft's life.

  • Both Lovecraft's parents fell into madness here
  • he would spend his life worrying he would end up here himself.

This is an active mental Hospital so I’d recommend just driving by on the way to Lovecraft’s Grave.

Lovecraft’s father, Winfield, was admitted here in 1893 and remained until his death from “general paresis” (neurosyphilis) on 19 July 1898. In early 1919, Lovecraft’s mother had a nervous collapse and she entered the hospital on March 13. She died there on 24 May 1921—as the result of a possibly bungled gall bladder operation. -Lovecraft Encyclopedia

This building

is the scariest

in Lovecrafts life

Like a gaping maw over his human consitution

should he stumble too far,

into madness.

He would be Institutionalized here

spiraling into darkness

until a

distant

broken…..Oblivion.

This wasn’t some fantasy

this is how and where both of his parents died.

Lovecraft’s father was brought here in (year)

It’s believed he had syphylis.

unknown at the time, they simply could treat the symptoms

It rotted his brain, and drove him insane.

What howard knew about his father’s illness

is unclear, and he is never straight forward about it

in any letters or correspondence.

Only (number) miles away from where he grew up.

Howard never visited his father

and after 5 years of suffering

he succcombed

to his affliction

Continued in Part 2

Lovecraft’s mother, would share

a similiar fate.

The last (20) years of her life, saw her marriage fail

her fiances fail

her son

fail

and finally her sanity……

Susan Lovecraft was brought here, after a psychological collapse.

(blank years later)

(visuals) RIP Susan Lovecraft

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