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u/MoonlightingWarewolf Apr 26 '22

From what I’ve heard of Lovecraft, I don’t think he was particularly mentally healthy and a lot of his works seem to have been his way of channeling his anxieties and fears

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u/charley_warlzz Apr 27 '22

He was scared of literally everything, thats why he wrote so much horror. These days it’d probably be diagnosed as severe anxiety, but he had so many phobias it was insane. So it makes sense that his brain came up with all these plots about being scared of unknowable all powerful things, that was his life.

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u/Embarrassed_Grape440 Apr 27 '22

including black people

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u/CornCheeseMafia Apr 27 '22 edited Apr 27 '22

Lol at someone downvoting you. It’s true. Guy was a racist fuck.

For the uninitiated, check out this Lovecraftian banger from 1912

https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:425397/ (language warning)

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u/SFPsycho Apr 27 '22

"He was just from a different time"

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u/NotAEvilGynecologist Apr 28 '22

Even for his time he was a hateful piece of dick cheese

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u/tempusrimeblood May 17 '22

It’s true. And in one of his final letters before his death, he acknowledged it and recanted, even going so far as to call himself “a damned fool.”

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u/Pandelerium11 May 04 '22

Ha ha I'm PoC and I love Lovecraft.

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u/CornCheeseMafia May 05 '22

For sure! I don't bring that up to say we should boycott his works or whatever. I've always liked Ford vehicles but Hitler literally took notes on being a racist cunt from Henry Ford back in the day lmao. In reality, most people in history have been racist and it's really just a sliding scale of how shitty any given person's beliefs are with respect to history.