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The horrors

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Things that freaked H. P. Lovecraft out:
Geometry
Stars
Cool air
Subways
Old houses
Corners of rooms
Violin music
Flute music
The very concept of dreams
Realistic paintings
It would be easier to list the things that didn't freak Howard out.
- Plus everyone who wasn't white and from his home town.
  
  On the Creation of N*ggers
  When, long ago, the Gods created Earth, In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth. The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd; Yet were they too remote from humankind. To fill this gap, and join the rest to man, Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan. A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure, Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a N*GGER.
  H.P.LOVECRAFT.
  😬😬😬
  
  You’re just taking him out of context. /s
  
  It's just a bad translation, in the original Roman it's a passage about love.
  
  It's well known that he was a socially awkward and autistic.
  
  We should have “a bit of grace” and give the “benefit of the doubt.” _/s
  
  I am not surprised that this is actually something he wrote.
  
  Please put something like this behind a spoiler or something; there are those of us who've had that word hurled enough in our daily life that it suddenly appearing while browsing social media is alarm-inducing.
  
  Lovercraft was a gamer
  
  My favorite way of explaining how racist he was is that his contemporaries over a century ago in the "Birth of a Nation" period of racism were like "Dude - tone down the racism."
- Colors
  
  Of light. But also black people too, but that's not what I meant!
- Things that made him cum:
  Gambreled rooftops mostly
  Honorable mentions:
  Gables
  Central chimneys
  Providence
  
  Maine
  see also: Stephen King
- his cat
  ...that's probably it
  
  And his cat's name freaks out all of us
  
  what do you mean, surely it cant be that bad
  oh
  oh noooooo
  
  Yep, the n-word kitty.
  If you are curious, you can read more about the man and find him nearly frightened by his own shadow, thus filled with hate and bias to the brim. His fragile antics are probably why he wrote a lot of foundational horror stories. Guy was clearly unwell in the head department, and although it gave us a lot of creative lit, all of it is stained with things he was himself afraid of.
  
  And it's even worse than it being the name of his real cat- he also named a cat in one of his stories that. So anyone just reading his works can encounter it.
  
  Holy shit
- Lol, apparently I'm a double threat against H.P.L. I was first chair flute and first chair violin.
  
  Orchestral miscegenation probably also freaked him out
  
  A kender with two different instruments AND two chairs, you say? 🤔
  
  Ummm, my band teacher wouldn't let me play violin in band, so I earned first or second chair in every section of the band out of spite.
  I earned first chair violin in university.
  Funnily enough bard is my least favorite D&D class....
  
  Well you've told us about the first chairs, so what instruments did you get second chair with?
  
  Mostly brass. French horn, and trumpet were difficult
  
  But at least French horns look really cool
- Angle of a wall.
- Corners of rooms
  Is this a mf "Hounds of Tindalos" reference.
- Paying more than a few cents for coffee Spending more than $3 a day on food
- I am not a huge Lovecraft fan (despite reading more than I probably should have), but Cool Air is a rare short story I can find absolutely no fault with.

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