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That would be "Facts Concerning The Late Arthur Jermyn & his Family", I think? Where the horror seems to be that white people are still so close to a species of, specifically equally white, gorillas that we can mate with them. Also very racially fixated.

Quite.

The Catholic immigrants in Haunter are not treated nearly as badly as the other groups mentioned, though - they are the only people doing anything effective against The Spawn of The Shining Trapezohedron: their celebration of their saints saves Robert Blake from feeding himself to it, for example.

Quite.

Misogyny, at least, was not one of his failings, as is quite clear from his letters. You confuse character & creator: the views of Ephraim Waite are not those of Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Do you also think Lovecraft wanted to take over the world through black magic? & am slightly saddened that you seem to have

But this is what you would be looking for? "The press cuttings, as I have intimated, touched on cases of panic, mania,
and eccentricity during the given period. Professor Angell must have employed a cutting bureau,
for the number of extracts was tremendous and the sources scattered throughout the globe. Here
was a

He had several, actually. Made him no less racist.

Not merely savage - decadent! Which, for Lovecraft, would be illustrated by their mixed race status. Bit paradoxical.

One would certainly hope that Pickman would have had a hard time of things during Great Cthulhu turning over in his bed, but I think you may be confusing him with that queer fellow, Henry Anthony Wilcox?

You have not read Medusa`s Coil then, I take it ( also very evident proof that his racism did not make him a better writer )

He was horribly racist, & publicly declared himself to be so. Not towards the Japanese, though, as it happens.

Actually, literally thousands of writers of those times did. It was a period in which the Third Reich ascended to power, & the US instituted ever - stricter racial segregation laws. Genocide was often mentioned as a minor background issue,

Quite agree in the article being superficial ( amongst other things, the elder Lovecraft became systematically socialist ): not to mention its odd conceit that Lovecraft is somehow hidden behind his racism, instead of it drawing even more attention to him ( Cthulhu was on South Park: that is hardly shameful obscurity