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Things that freaked H. P. Lovecraft out:

Geometry
Stars
Cool air
Subways
Old houses
Corners of rooms
Violin music
Flute music
The very concept of dreams
Realistic paintings

It would be easier to list the things that didn’t freak Howard out.

Plus everyone who wasn’t white and from his home town.

On the Creation of N*ggers

When, long ago, the Gods created Earth, In Jove’s fair image Man was shap’d at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design’d; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill this gap, and join the rest to man, Th’Olympian host conceiv’d a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill’d it with vice, and call’d the thing a N*GGER.

H.P.LOVECRAFT.

😬😬😬

You’re just taking him out of context. /s

I am not surprised that this is actually something he wrote.

Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who’ve had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.

Lovercraft was a gamer

My favorite way of explaining how racist he was is that his contemporaries over a century ago in the “Birth of a Nation” period of racism were like “Dude - tone down the racism.”

Of light. But also black people too, but that’s not what I meant!

Things that made him cum:

Gambreled rooftops mostly

Honorable mentions:

Gables
Central chimneys
Providence

Maine

see also: Stephen King

his cat

…that’s probably it

And his cat’s name freaks out all of us

what do you mean, surely it cant be that bad

oh noooooo

Lol, apparently I’m a double threat against H.P.L. I was first chair flute and first chair violin.

Orchestral miscegenation probably also freaked him out

A kender with two different instruments AND two chairs, you say? 🤔

Ummm, my band teacher wouldn’t let me play violin in band, so I earned first or second chair in every section of the band out of spite.

I earned first chair violin in university.

Funnily enough bard is my least favorite D&D class…

Corners of rooms

Is this a mf “Hounds of Tindalos” reference.

Paying more than a few cents for coffee Spending more than $3 a day on food

I am not a huge Lovecraft fan (despite reading more than I probably should have), but Cool Air is a rare short story I can find absolutely no fault with.

My favorite fact about Lovecraft was that he was so fucking racist, the KKK told him to chill the fuck out on his racism.

Lovecraft being a neurotic mess afraid of everything is probably why his books are so good. He did a great job with filling his books with that sense of existential dread.

neurotic mess

I see I’ve got something in common with him

“I’m terrified of everything, and you can too!”

Take a shot every time Lovecraft says something is unknowable or indescribable.

No. No, no. No no no no. NO.

We don’t need to go through a 40 in ten minutes.

Not with that attitude.

I’d need another liver or two to complete it on one single short story of his.

https://feddit.org/comment/1544177

Interestingly, it was a thread on the same screenshot

The man was a neurotic anxious mess who was scared of everything around him in his time and checked into the psych ward multiple times. I guess it shows in his writings

Both of his parents were extremely mentally ill from syphilis. That’s why the theme of generational curse is so prominent in his work.

As for how racist he was, You just need to know that he wrote a book where the big revelation and last sentence of the book was something along the lines of, “worst of all, she was an n-word”. The book’s name is Medusa’s coil

Yeah he was a homophobe and a racist for sure. But how much more than anyone else from his time. I love the themes he brings in but I think other people have done a good job of showing his ideas without the fear he had in him, Shape of water comes to mind and I think del Toro does a great job in showing those themes of the unknown and all.

There’s a video on his (HP) work by HBomberguy which I think is really good.

I didnt know about the reason for his generational curse… That’s pretty cool!

Personally I think Lovecraft having these issues makes him a more fascinating author to me. The fear of otherness is so prevalent in his work, it’s like looking directly into his soul

A ton more than other people of his time. Like, diehard racists told him to chill out and be less racist.

showing his ideas without the fear he had in him,

Shadow over Innsmouth, the fish people were his fear of interracial breeding. Once you start applying the lense to his work, it becomes hard to not break the 4th wall even when he’s not spouting the N-word.

He was racist to the point where friends, and acquaintances, of his, at the time, were put-off by it. Their expression of how uncomfortable it made them was one of the factors that went into him renouncing his bigotry.

His racism was bad enough that his friends, and acquaintances, at the time, found it off-putting. Their expression of how uncomfortable it made them was one of the factors that eventually lead to him renouncing his bigotry.

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