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minus-squareAVincentInSpace@pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·9 months agoIt would be inaccurate to describe Howard Phillips Lovecraft as a man with issues. It’s more like he was a bundle of issues shuffling around in a roughly bipedal approximation of a man. Chronically depressed, hypersensitive to criticism, almost certainly agoraphobic, prone to horrible nightmares and nervous breakdowns, and thoroughly racist even by the standards of the time, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that HP Lovecraft was simply afraid of everything, but this isn’t true either. He was simply afraid of everything that wasn’t his hometown of Providence, RI.
It would be inaccurate to describe Howard Phillips Lovecraft as a man with issues. It’s more like he was a bundle of issues shuffling around in a roughly bipedal approximation of a man. Chronically depressed, hypersensitive to criticism, almost certainly agoraphobic, prone to horrible nightmares and nervous breakdowns, and thoroughly racist even by the standards of the time, it would be easy to come to the conclusion that HP Lovecraft was simply afraid of everything, but this isn’t true either. He was simply afraid of everything that wasn’t his hometown of Providence, RI.