Also wasn’t he isolated and had a fucked up upbringing? I’m also pretty sure he had some kind of mental illness.
His father died in a mental hospital (probably from late-stage syphilis) when Howard was a young child, so he was raised by his mother, grandparents, and aunts. His grandfather taught him old Victorian English literature and ghost stories and his aunts kept him isolated because he was sick with some unspecified disease (possibly Sydenham's chorea and/or atypical depression). He probably had some kind of anxiety disorder too but that's just my speculation
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Well if this is true than I would be open to changing my mind. Can you link me to where he said these things?
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Only awful people get to live forever
Hmm this does really cast the guy in a new light. I'm going to have a think and reassess my opinion of him.
Thank you for the link!
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But that doesn't say anything about racism.
His father died in a mental hospital (probably from late-stage syphilis) when Howard was a young child, so he was raised by his mother, grandparents, and aunts. His grandfather taught him old Victorian English literature and ghost stories and his aunts kept him isolated because he was sick with some unspecified disease (possibly Sydenham's chorea and/or atypical depression). He probably had some kind of anxiety disorder too but that's just my speculation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Early_life_and_family_tragedies