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The horrors (slrpnk.net)
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[โ€“] rumba@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

showing his ideas without the fear he had in him,

Shadow over Innsmouth, the fish people were his fear of interracial breeding. Once you start applying the lense to his work, it becomes hard to not break the 4th wall even when he's not spouting the N-word.

[โ€“] slacktoid@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah which is why I think "Shape of water" is a better Lovecraftian style of work than HP could ever achieve. He was a troubled scared man, who created an entire genre of horror. Hope we may never be as consumed by our fears as he was.