The graphic novel author wrote fiction published by Arkham House. He died at an earlier day than the man who theorized the Eight-circuit model of consciousness.
Howard Phillips Lovecraft ( ; August 20, 1890 March 15, 1937) was an American author who achieved posthumous fame through his influential works of horror fiction. 
Timothy Francis Leary (October 22, 1920  May 31, 1996) was an American psychologist and writer known for advocating the exploration of the therapeutic potential of psychedelic drugs under controlled conditions. 
Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H. P. Lovecraft. 
The Eight-Circuit Model of Consciousness is a hypothesis by Timothy Leary, and later expanded on by Robert Anton Wilson and Antero Alli, that "suggested eight periods [circuits] and twenty-four stages of neurological evolution". 
