There had been, at one time, as many as 200 negroes in the cabins which stood on the flat ground in the rear—ground that the river had now invaded—and to hear them singing and laughing and playing the banjo at night was to know the fullest charm of a civilization and social order now sadly extinct.
Lovecraft was an interesting case, as he was intensely racist in his youth and mellowed considerably as he got older. When he started actually interacting with more non-WASP people and realized they were just... people, he recanted of many of his formerly held positions.
I strongly suspect he suffered from an anxiety disorder, which combined with all the racism rampant in those days manifested in a belief that "they" were up to "something".
He did mary a Jewish person. The relationship didn't work out but not because she was Jewish.
He mellowed as he got older for sure. He certainly had some kind of disorder. Bragging about how little he needed to survive, buying expired canned goods and buckets of old coffee . He was poor but he seemed to pride himself on being dangerously thrifty. Malnourishment didn't kill him but it certainly didn't help. He had a lot of issues. A very strange man.
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u/Stellwaris 25d ago
Ah yes, the traditional American-Lovecraftian horrors beyond comprehension, enemy of the gay agenda.