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
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