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42 – Saler – As If

Game Studies Study Buddies

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Lovecraft's Life Experience in Providence

Lovecraft was a little bit of what we might call like a keyboard Nazi yes exactly the perfect example of this this is a quote from one of his letters. He had basically one real life experience for one year and it shattered him as a human being right like he just couldn't handle like being around people I mean he goes to New York and writes the horror at Red Hook right. These things are intimately related so yeah he was someone who was deeply you know beyond the pale when it comes to his eugenicist racist beliefs and he got some life experience apparently Robert Howard sat him down and was like hey you idiot. Listen to what I have to tell you about why you're wrong and

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