It's ironic that Howard. Philips. Lovecraft believed that nothing could live on the bottom of the ocean. But after discovering more & more of the sea, the creatures become more Lovecraftian in appearence

I feel sorry for him.. his whole family has a history of going mad. He was basically mentally and emotionally abused by his mom who went mad which in turn basically stunted his mental and emotional growth

In Lovecraft's defense, his mum was highly overprotective during his childhood so he barely attended school and didn't leave the house much, so his resources for learning about the world around him was limited to mainly old books in his home from the previous century... hence the racism lmao

Ironically, he actually had a few friends of different ethnicities and towards the end of his life was showing signs of reevaluating his world views but sadly he died of intestinal cancer soon afterwards :(

Some points many don't talk about Lovecraft is his racism was pointed out by his only close friends, those in this writing group, one of those being Howard the writer of Conan. This did actually have him reevaluate himself and change to a large degree.

Gotta love how the air conditioner story is literally just Lovecraft going “You mean there exists mechanisms that conjure sudden cold winds? WHAT MIGHT THEY BE CAPABLE OF?!?!”

Ok Nux just don’t ask what Lovecraft’s cat is called

In Lovercraft's defence. He never uses the word black. He uses much more poetic words.

"The horror, it's so awful that it's indescribable." proceeds to describe it in verbose detail

Fun fact: According to available documentation tentacle hentai was invented by Katsushika Hokusai in the work The Dream of the Fisherman's Wife.

False Advertising, this is not "EVERY H.P. Lovecraft Story & Lore...". This does not have the Albino Penguins

I recomed the Tale Foundary's video on H. P. Lovecraft's writing técnicamente  for a better understanding of how he managed to describe horror while describing nothing at all, how something sounds so stupid when abriged, sounds so  horrifying when you read the original. It is more of a literary dive than a lore dive, but very interesting if you want to understand why it became so loved and popular, why Cathulu is everywhere today despite coming from something so simple.

The idea of light that mutates everything it touches is scary,  The very fact that you are seeing it means that it's always changing you. I imagine it as your eyes mutating as the light touches them, growing new cones allowing you to experience new shades of color.

There’s a roleplaying game called The Call of Cthulhu, its most prominent characteristic is that all playing characters got a number of Sanity Points, each time you meet a Lovecraft monster or witness a gruesome event you roll against Sanity, and lose a certain amount of points, you lose them all you die of fright or go irreversibly mad. Those sailors in R’lyeh not only saw Cthulhu, they received the full telepathic blast of his alien mind, which broadcasts alien thoughts all around the planet, giving artistic types a world away nightmares. In game terms, they lost 1d100 Sanity, they either died of fright, were mangled and/or devoured by Cthulhu, the only guy save Johansen who made it to the boat spent a couple of days continuously shouting on the deck until he died, and Johansen whose hair went white and descended to an early grave (but he beat f***ing Cthulhu, damnit!)

Imagine if Lovecraft was alive today. Seeing how incredibly diverse the Americans are, the very concept of Nuclear Weapons (Remember, he died shortly before Project Manhattan began,) The image of a Black Hole and what some of the sea creatures of the deepest depths look like.

Fun Fact: In the Hearts of Iron 4 mod Kaiserredux, you can get H.P. Lovecraft to rule New England. It is an extremely instane path, and i absolutely love it.

Btw, Nux should react to Kaiserreich/Kaiserredux lore. It is also insane.

Lovecraft submitted his stories to magazines for his income. So they couldn’t be very long in the first place

The narrator's descriptions sound far more like a hit piece than a legit description of Lovecraft's stories.  Yes, he totally had issues and I don't think the racist aspects of his agoraphobia should be ignored.  His work should not be misrepresented though either.

A lot of his horror is generally based around unknown aspects of reality, or other entities within it, being so alien that the human mind can barely even begin to comprehend or adequately perceive them.  For example, it's quite clear in Call of Cthulhu that Lovecraft was NOT simply referring to either hyperbolic or elliptic geometry by calling the architecture of the city 'non-Euclidian'.  The characters in the story could not even make sense of the shapes they were looking at - it's more like it was 4+D and that was just their brain's best attempt to represent what they were perceiving.  Same deal with 'Color out of Space'.  It's about an entity that is so alien that the vague notion of a 'color' was the best the brain could do to even begin to make sense of the thing.  The stories are not about nor inspired by 'scary curves and unknown colors'.

I'd describe most his work more as terrifying science-fiction than as supernational horror.  I hope you read some of it yourself:  I think you would appreciate some of his stories because they go deeper than this 'review' would suggest.   There is a reason they have become so well-known despite Lovecraft's more offensive characteristics.

“Thoroughly racist even by the standards of the time.” Untrue. He was casually racist for his times, reflecting the fact that he had almost no contact with other races.  It’s important to remember that Lovecraft was writing in the 1920s, which immediately followed the “nadir of race relations”.

There's a couple of facts I found out that Overly Sarcastic Productions missed,
1. His father was a traveling salesman, who later in life when Lovecraft was a toddler, was committed to a mental asylum due to, what we now know thanks to modern medicine, generic syphilis
2. Lovecraft's mother used a low amount of cyanide, as a makeshift makeup quick fix, due to its power to tighten muscle, which would  later in her life, drive her off the deep end(pun unintended)
3. Before Lovecraft moved in with his grandfather (a role model in his early years and a merchant sailor), Lovecraft's mother dressed H.P. in little girl clothes until he was 7 or was it 8 years old (never got that part right) however, when mother and son moved in with the grandfather, he firmly told her to stop it and the books that H.P. read were from his grandfather's library.
Now, I may or may not be wrong, this is just a personal opinion on the facts, but yes, he was casually racist but he didn't know that his editor was secretly gay, also he would become acquainted with master escape artist, Harry Houdini, at least in his later years, both even tried to make an astrology article with no religious context, which was very unwise at that time period, so much so, that Houdini, while taking care of Lovecraft's apartment, would get attacked by a zealous convert wielding a penknife and stabbed him in the kidney or liver, he survived  until the unfortunate incident of the water torture tank.
Take these facts and opinions with a grain of salt cause yes, he was racist and a mild misanthrope caused by childhood trauma but created the largest fan following that grows day by day and one of the greatest genres of horror of all time(also this is the largest comment I've done😥).
(Weird noises from behind) what was that?
(Noises continue) 🤤oh no, you don't!
😨Quickly, the window, I must escape through the window!
😈😂, just kidding, I am alright, little joke.

Me when I timetravel to meet Lovecraft:
"The stars in the sky can wipe away our atmosphere and oceans in moments. The laws of physics can spontaneously change somewhere in the middle of space, and erase everything. Exotic matter more stable than normal matter could randomly hit earth, turning it into a sphere of subatomic soup smaller than a city. All these things actually might be possible, and we'd have no warning. No intelligent force behind it, and no consideration for what's destroyed. "