Smiths translations of Baudelaire are also worth a look.

Lovecraft kept a detailed diary whilst hospitalized with a painful & fatal disease: a real - life example of the trope.

Me, also. & I am not merely saying that as a mobile fungoid entity wearing one of you funny humans face mask.

Especially after Lovecraft became a socialist.

Actually, one have read quite a few people saying the exact opposite: http://www.nybooks.com/arti… tend to agree with you, though.

Not sure Moore, himself, would entirely agree with you.

Previous to the previous century, actually: he did not care for Victorian sentimentalism, but enthused at length about the Georgian era.

Bierce influenced Lovecraft quite directly: witness how he goes on about him in "Supernatural Horror in Literature"

The "twist" in Jermyn is that white people are descended from apes as much as black people are. To quote the story itself: "Science, already oppressive
with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species—if
separate species we be—for its reserve of unguessed horrors could never…

Lovecraft
would most likely have found Trump incoherent, not racist in the
"right" way ( which were also Lovecraft's II main objections to Hitler
), &, most decisively, irredeemably vulgar. The elder Lovecraft was
also systematically socialist: one would imagine that his diatribes
against the Republicans would have…

Quite.

Derleth was one of the reasons Lovecraft was kept in obscurity for so long, actually: he grossly misinterpreted & vulgarized him, while at the same time persecuting anyone else who tried to make use of the Mythos.

They would most likely have got on quite well with each other, actually.

Yes, he was, but as a cultural default: Lovecraft was much more active about it, as was his times.

Quite.

Quite. Else, why use him as an elucidating example to begin with?

" I think he's also probably more likely to indulge in "Yellow Peril"
language than in language that disparages people of African origin."
That is quite decidedly not the case.

Not all Spaniards: " A high-bred face of masterful though not arrogant expression
was adorned by a short iron-grey full beard, and an old-fashioned pince-nez shielded the full,
dark eyes and surmounted an aquiline nose which gave a Moorish touch to a physiognomy otherwise
dominantly Celtiberian. Thick, well-trimmed hair…

Quite.

When it came to his racism, he was, unfortunately, very much a product of his time.