The horrors

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

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.

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

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.

Lovercraft was a gamer

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.

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.”

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

Corners of rooms

Is this a mf “Hounds of Tindalos” reference.

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

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

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…

Orchestral miscegenation probably also freaked him out

Things that made him cum:

Gambreled rooftops mostly

Honorable mentions:

Gables
Central chimneys
Providence

Maine

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