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Publisher: "Wow. The descriptions of these aliens is so vivid and inhuman. How did you come up with them?!"
Lovecraft: "Aliens? I'm just describing black people and Jews."
KKK dude: "That's why you're not allowed at the meetings anymore."
W-W-Welsh???
I have to admit, I didn't know shit about the man when I got into his stories but finding out how incredibly racist he was sure as shit explains the ending to a few stories where the horror element is finding out you're the offspring of some people you think look a bit ugly.
iirc Lovecraft was considered wildly racist even by the standards of the time. Overly sarcastic productions has a nice video about how a lot of his stories were manifestations of his irrational fear of just about everything really.