H.P. Lovecraft died in 1937 broke and largely unpublished, yet his stories about cosmic horrors indifferent to humanity reshaped an entire genre. Director Frank H. Woodward traces Lovecraft's life from a sickly, isolated childhood in Providence, Rhode Island through his pulp-magazine years and the creation of the Cthulhu Mythos, using period photographs, his own letters, and readings from tales like "The Call of Cthulhu" and "At the Mountains of Madness." Interviews with writers and filmmakers who cite him as a direct influence, including Guillermo del Toro, John Carpenter, Neil Gaiman, and Peter Straub, sit alongside Lovecraft scholars like S.T. Joshi, who walk through how a man mocked in his own lifetime became a cornerstone of modern horror. The film does not shy from Lovecraft's racism and xenophobia, treating them as inseparable from the fear that drives his fiction rather than a footnote to it. Named Best Documentary at the 2008 Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival, it works as both a biography and an argument for why his particular strain of dread still spreads.