Thread:LucidPigeons/@comment-24469175-20160518184507/@comment-26205772-20160612045803

Lovecraft was a horrible, horrible racist, even by the standards of his time. He was an anti-Semite, hated those he considered "racially impure," and a lot of that worked into his writing. Part of his "fear of the unknown" philosophy was based on two things reflective of his view of the time period; the advance of scientific technologies and understanding of the world and universe (Lovecraft was terrified of this and believed that this was something mankind wasn't meant to understand) and the continued integrations of those he considered racially impure into his own culture. One of the things Lovecraft utilized to scare others was actually miscegenation (that's what The Shadow Over Innsmouth represents) and he was repulsed when he found out one of his own ancestors was Welsh.

If that wasn't enough, he considered Hitler's own philosophies mild and referred to him as a clown in one of his letters. There's some evidence to support Lovecraft kind of waned out of his views before he died (he briefly married a Jew and the divorce was amiable and more out of Lovecraft's financial situation more than anything else) but, well, The Street still exists.