Yeah, horror writers usually scare easily, that's where their ideas come from.

For example, Stephan King is afraid of cars among other things, that's where Christine and Maximum Overdrive comes from. (Ironically, he also almost died being struck by a car. I doubt that alleviated his fear.)

non-Euclidean geometry

real.

If you exclude the racism and sexism (and probably homophobia, I assume), dude and I share a pretty good number of things that frighten us.

There were things that didn't scare him?

Lovecraft is Monk confirmed

pretty sure he hated his mom because she was bonkers abusive towards him

It was removedman, I'll save y'all a click.

Edit: Lemmy removed the first part of his name. Lovecraft didn't like black people, so You can figure out what it was.

I've read his works. Some stories aged better than others. I sometimes had to remind myself that they were written almost a century ago.

His predecessor would've been H. Rider Haggard who, while generally considered an archracist because of how he developed the savage stereotype, had African heros as well and pretty deep respect for zulu culture. Haggard even wrote a book with a white villain and black protagonists. He generally was extremely misogynistic though.

You can also see haggard's influence on burrough's Mars books.

he seems like he was an open-minded guy.

Well that's certainly one of the takes of all time. He's widely acknowledged to have been racist even for his time

>uninspired
>lives in an age where horror culture has been greatly inspired by his works

Uninspired is definitely not the right word.

Quite possibly they're just not your thing. Agree the writing is not the best but for me it's the world building and abstract nature of his horror that draw me in which at the time he wrote them were unique and I'd argue continue to be unique as so many people draw from his stories as a source of influence.

His dad developed syphilitic halucinations when HP was four years old. He died of untreated syphilis in an insitution when HP was eight.

His mother was a wreck in general and psychologically abusive in his childhood. He grew close to his grandfather, but he died and the family assets were dissolved, leaving HP and his abusive unstable mother living in a small studio apartment, basically, meaning he couldn't get away from it. She also had a breakdown and died in an institution after only two years after being commited.

https://lovecraftzine.com/2013/11/14/mommie-dearest-h-p-lovecrafts-descent-into-maternal-madness-by-john-a-delaughter

Not sure why he's singled out especially. He was born in 1890. You could throw a rock at that point and hit a sexist, racist, everything-ist.

I'm sure in a 100 years they'll say the same about us.

Overly Sarcastic Productions did a great little piece on him and his work a while back.