@Taskerland Our exchange made me think of this letter H.P.
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@Taskerland Our exchange made me think of this letter H.P. Lovecraft wrote to Robert Bloch in October 1933: https://www.hplhs.org/voluminous36.php
Lovecraft expresses his admiration for Hitler, who had just been elected Chancellor. He speaks about the Nazi party in glowing terms and expounds on his racist and white supremacist world view.
It's pretty horrendous, all the more so because Bloch was a Jew.
Despite this, they remained friends and Lovecraft was a mentor to Bloch as he developed as a writer.
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@Taskerland Our exchange made me think of this letter H.P. Lovecraft wrote to Robert Bloch in October 1933: https://www.hplhs.org/voluminous36.php
Lovecraft expresses his admiration for Hitler, who had just been elected Chancellor. He speaks about the Nazi party in glowing terms and expounds on his racist and white supremacist world view.
It's pretty horrendous, all the more so because Bloch was a Jew.
Despite this, they remained friends and Lovecraft was a mentor to Bloch as he developed as a writer.
@strangequark When he first moved to New York, Lovecraft took a stroll through the Lower East Side in the company of two Jews, one of which was his wife.
His response to seeing a Jewish neighborhood was that someone should come and pump poison gas into the buildings in order to clear them out for inhabitation by 'decent people'.
Just when you think you've hit rock bottom when it comes to horrible things that Lovecraft said, you can always go deeper.
