PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- The Providence City Council has voted to name an intersection after native son and horror writer H.P. Lovecraft.
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The council's chief of staff says a resolution to call the intersection of Angell and Prospect streets "H.P. Lovecraft Square" was approved unanimously earlier this month.
Lovecraft lived for years on Angell Street near Brown University. The Halsey House mansion on Prospect Street served as the fictional home of the main character in one of his better known works, "The Case of Charles Dexter Ward."
The Rhode Island Historical Society has held H.P. Lovecraft walking tours, highlighting significant landmarks from the writer's life and works. Fans are also planning to celebrate him at a convention in Providence in August.
Lovecraft died in 1937 at age 46. He's buried in Providence's Swan Point Cemetery.