>>92619143
>make them act like simplistic wild animlas
For the intelligent ones, motives beyond our understanding, or being in our world which they do not fully understand, or a total disregard for us and our environs.

Let me take a look at some of his stories that feature his own creations that are not and were not human.

>The Call of Cthulhu
We don't know exactly what he wants, only that it entails the overturning of our order for something more powerful.

>The Colour out of Space
The Colour (Yes, he spelled it the english way) is so alien as to be impossible to describe, incompatible with our world in some way. It feeds and leaves. How intelligent it is is not possible to assess, since it cannot communicate, and has a form so far removed from one we understand that we cannot even use clues like eyes or posture.

>At the Mountains of Madness
The Elder Things are not met, only their creations the Shoggoths, which were created as dumb servitors and later attained some degree of independence.

>The Whisperer in Darkness
This one very clearly is unlike what you've said. The Mi-Go that's replaced a human is capable of holding a conversation, of deception, of understanding a human enough to gain its trust and then betray that trust.

In short it's not that these things are simplistic, it's that many of them are detached, far removed. For something to be alien, it should be difficult or impossible to fully grasp the mind of it. Lovecraft was famously a man motivated and driven by fear, and he was great at coming up with new ways to be afraid. His xenophobia was truly a fear of the alien, the outside. Not just limited to "fear or hatred of other cultures", though that was definitely a part of it, but fear of anything that might overcome or erase what he knew and found comfortable. He loved the history and architecture of the areas he was native to and familiar with, and I think that helps to put his fear of the alien into an understandable form.

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