#I made a valiant effort and read three different Lovecraft stories and then I just couldn’t take it anymore lmfao

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“average white Jazz Age American loved phrenology” actually statistical error. average white Jazz Age American only liked phrenology a little bit. H. P. Lovecraft, otherwise known as “Phrenologies Georg,” is an outlier and should not have been counted

#h. p. lovecraft #I made a valiant effort and read three different Lovecraft stories and then I just couldn’t take it anymore lmfao #The Rats In The Walls was actually a thoroughly compelling and enjoyable and batshit horror piece #if it weren’t for the fact that it featured the N-WORD CAT #sigh. anyway. it turns out my tolerance for bigotry in classic literature has an upper limit #and so far Lovecraft is the only soul to have reached that limit #maybe I’ll try reading the Cthulhu Mythos someday… maybe