I wish we’d gotten to see the rest of Lovecraft’s redemption arc.

He died so soon after beginning to realize and acknowledge that his views about the world had been abhorrent.

Edit to add:

If anyone’s curious to read an example of the beginnings of his realization, check out this letter, written about a month before his death:

https://github.com/punchmonster/Lovecraft-Letters/blob/master/19370207-Catherine-L-Moore.md

It’s a fairly long letter, but the whole thing is interesting. He seems to have been radicalized and was becoming quite critical of capitalism, if not a full blown Marxist. You’ll find the following quote in the last paragraph:

I looked around for a 1924 photograph of myself to burn, spit on, or stick pins in! Holy Hades—was I that much of a dub at 33 … only 13 years ago? There was no getting out of it—I really had thrown all that haughty, complacent, snobbish, self-centered, intolerant bull, & at a mature age when anybody but a perfect damned fool would have known better!

There’s more evidence in there than just that passage, but this is already becoming a wall of text!

I’ve never seen anyone try to sell horror this way, far from enough for it to be a thing.

I once read that Lovecraft went on a big antisemitic rant only to be gently reminded by his wife that she was Jewish.

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

or sharing an elevator with an Irishman.

The New York Times calls Going Down, “Lovecraft at his spine-chilling best! An Arkham professor of antiquities steps into a lift and gets the ride of his life!”