>>24087346
>If he thought there was any potential in your kind, he would have gone to the ghetto or Mexico.
To play Devil's Advocate a lot of his monsters do come from somewhat tropical backgrounds and are worshipped by foreign and bizarre cultures. Shadow Over Innsmouth is literally about how colonialism and imperialism led to race mixing which is a disgusting burden on mankind, in his eyes.
>>24087308
I feel it's more that you need to have a somewhat mystical and supersticious mind to fully graso and understand lovecraft, he works within the weird and offputting coincidences and cracks in reality that drive people to post weird findings on /x/ and go mad. A lot of tropical countries from the southern hemisphere still keep that tradition and aren't quite as secularised as europeans became, now incapable of seeing them as nothing short of weird monsters and goofy cults. A lot still have a mystical eye but I feel that's a object of mockery and not intrigue these days. I heard someone a while back say that "there's no such thing as magic in Lovecraft's works, only high usage of esoteric knowledge lost to time that appears alien to us" and I feel that rings true, we mock people for wanting to dive into and search these pathways here, and im sure that was plenty ostracized in Lovecraft's time as his work calls that out plenty of times.

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