HP Lovecraft.


A horror writer who was vastly more disturbing than his stories. He constantly made anti-semitic remarks to his wife.
"Whenever we found ourselves in the racially mixed crowds which characterize New York, Howard would become livid with rage. He seemed almost to lose his mind." His wife was Jewish.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sun 10 Apr 2011, 14:55, 5 replies)

I find it amusing that he appears to be belming.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Sun 10 Apr 2011, 15:57, closed)

pffft
Me too.
( Snollock Biffer I don't really sniff Bollocks, Mon 11 Apr 2011, 19:12, closed)

In later life...
He was scared of both heat and the cold, cats and seafood.

Not a very reasonable man.
(xaer0mancer, Sun 10 Apr 2011, 16:24, closed)

There are two or three of his stories
with little or no supernatural content that show very clearly he would have been an enthusiastic Nazi if he'd been in the right place and lived long enough. Even "The Call Of Cthulhu" reeks of xenophobia in the first few pages.

There wasn't anything unusual about that of course. Lindbergh and Ford are other examples and even President Harry S Truman confessed later to considering joining the KKK.

Those sort of attitudes were "normal" for the times. Read Faulkner's "Light in August" where prejudice extends to Italians who were considered to be only slighty above "niggers".
(Redemption blamed it on the Bossa Nova since, Sun 10 Apr 2011, 23:00, closed)

His cat was called Niggerman.

( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Mon 11 Apr 2011, 13:21, closed)