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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8501609" data-attributes="member: 7023887">I don't think that he was unique in his viewpoints, and never said that. There were obviously other people as racist/more racist than him in that day and age, and they were more common than they are in the modern day, but there were people of his time that called his racism extreme. As you pointed in, he was a borderline shut-in, and that helped fuel his writing. He was afraid of basically everything, so he could write horror about basically anything (the ocean, space, colors that we can't see, air conditioners, gods of other cultures, etc). It's actually a pretty good formula for being a great horror author. If you're scared of everything, everything is horrific to you, and you can write it in a "fantastic" spin that others can relate to.I don't see how that letter really refutes anything I say. He supported Hitler. He said so in that passage you quoted. Sure, he had his disagreements with him, but he still supported him. Whether or not he thought he was the "lesser of two evils" he still supported him.Wikipedia elaborates a bit more (barely) <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._P._Lovecraft#Politics" target="_blank">here</a>, saying that towards the end of his life he may have started to disagree more with him, but there's not much evidence either way.Edit: Grammar</blockquote>