He was probably lost in morbid and desolate thought as he meandered in his garden, and only realized he’d entered into a market once he noticed the lack of black cats and mausoleums around him.

Lovecraft loved travelling. He went on many trips around New England, as well as rambling through Providence and other ancient towns (ancient in the American sense, that is)

@@anthonyguter But he didn’t travel the world, and he was virulently xenophobic. He never even made it to England, which he considered to be the most cultured land and society.

@@timopper5488 I've never made it to England, and have never had someone call me xenophobic because of it. And, of course, commercial airlines did not exist then - it would be a long boat ride.

@@anthonyguter "ancient in the American sense" so, 80 years, give or take?

...like POC?

@@darkangel076 Cry

My favourite example of this is the story in which he describes an alien city being overrun by monstrous yellow creatures, only to reveal at the end that they're just eskimos

@@georgerose1252 Minions.

I think he was a lot more complex than people give him credit for- he travelled around quite a bit, and moved many times. His worst really racist stuff that few people have probably read(I listened to a lot of his older stuff in a compilation edition audibook) was pretty extreme. "It turned out, HIS ANCESTOR WAS BLACK!" and thats the whole premise. His later stuff is honestly very tame- Haitians performing wudu-sacrifice, but with people instead of chickens and goats, and the magic being real pretty much. Historically human sacrifice for wudu was a thing in Dahomey around the early 1900s, so the source material is there too.

Swarthy, I think he called them.

As an Italian I can confirm that

WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE

@@theaubergine1337 we don't have super natural powers

​@@c0l0rslayer31 I can confirm THAT!⬆️

Aahaaahahahahahahahahah XD XD XD

Yeah... google Lovecraft's cat name

To be fair, he generally uses colorfully descriptive language to denigrate people different from him.

@@carlonalessandro9021 Could you point me to the evidence for that?

​@@realhorrorshow8547perform a dark ritual at his grave and ask, he'll tell you (make sure you do white face if you're not white)

don't know why but this makes me laugh so much

The maddening prices...

The groceries of unimaginable price.

The Eldrich sale. Prices so low the'll make you mad.

The prices were so low, they plunged deep into the unknown voids of darkness, far below any precipice upon which a man may deign to stand. E'en peering into the abyss to which these prices plummet in their maddening descent to the deep would be as to unravel the strings that make up a mind, like a stone sinking into the ocean.

If this is what he sounded like, then boy am I glad he never released an audiobook

I used to think he have deep/ low voice like story teller.

Yes! Didn't have room for that in my own comment!

@@Vinemaple No one is aware of any comments you made and comments do not have a length limit.

My headcanon voice for him was always Jeffrey Combs.

Aye.

This one hasn't written a story about a submarine crew full of intra-German racism

he was able to leave the house, so true

Because he went outside.

IRL H.P. Lovecraft tried to enlist in the U.S. expeditionary force in WWI; he wrote he hoped to be dispatched quickly by a stray bullet or piece of shrapnel. His application was approved, but subsequently rejected on medical grounds after his mother ran in and convinced the recruiting physician that Lovecraft was a medical invalid. There was probably a lot going on in his family that we'll never know about for sure

This is my favorite comment 😂

Speaking about that. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/mclgntVqnZPGg58.html

That was a great plot twist.

Or at the very least, the friends we made along the way were strictly writing correspondents residing far from Providence, in lands foreign, bleak, and insidiously oppressive, like the wan moon when a dark storm overtakes it.

@@timopper5488 Succinctly put

I can't tell if you're joking or not. With HPL, anything is possible.

@@deadNightwatchman you can tell that it's real because he signed the letters “-Thy honorable servant, Grandpa Theodophus. PS I definitely contain no Welsh!”

@@EmeraldLavigne Thank you, Stranger with a healthy Name!

Character development

It's true. HP gets a lot of hate for being racist, which he definitely was when he was younger, but as he got older his racism turned to tolerance, and he had a lot of regrets about his previous feelings. It's a shame he died so young because I think had he lived into his 70's or 80's he would have probably been able to move past that legacy he seems remembered for.

Did Lovecraft hate italians?

​@@arte0021 Search his cat's name

Cool Air is all about how H. P. Lovecraft doesn't understand/is afraid of air conditioning units.

@@Rayitolaser569 but his cat's name was n***r . Thats not a slur against italians

What if it it was Tonio Trussardi?

A surprise to be sure , but a welcome one.

@@t.wcharles2171 [glares] I see what you did there. We will follow your career with great interest.

@@juxstapo hello there.

@@t.wcharles2171General ....... Charrrles

Hey Jewish histry guy, nice to see you here! חג שמח. אני עוקב אחר הערוץ שלך.

Hope youre doing better!

Too bad no one cares

I see that the duality of man has been presented within two comments

why the fuck were you in a psych ward

I hope you are mentally well now. Everyone deserves be mentally peaceful.

An ammonia circulated air conditioner! And that guy deserved to melt. Imagine living that long and not having a backup unit for emergencies!

Air conditioning is necromancy!

And it was creepy

Lovecraft 🤝 Mechanics. Hating air conditioning

Wasn't that Stephen King? Oh... wait no, that was a lamp.

Glad to see he retained some sanity.

Disliking Italian cuisine is an insanity unto itself.

Maybe a bit of laudanum for spice.

I saw a flapping in the rafters yore, it was a pigeon came in the door, Flapping high above aisle four, where the beer and gin is stored. From Poe's "The Pigeon"

Quote of Edgar: "pour me more".

Prices Slashed!

Now available at Omega Mart!

That's A-level creativity in titling.

@@at-pe8wl You have no idea what's in store for you!

Thank you, you made me laugh

'Tis a pity indeed. But coincidentally all that harrowing misery, crippling fear and queer close-mindedness in his transitory existence was also an irrevocably necessary conconction for us to have "Lovecraftian Horror" at all.

I've never seen any reason to hate him, he was racist at a time when almost everyone was, you shouldn't hate someone for the social norms of their time. You should hate them if they keep doing it after society has moved on.

@@krashd| I'm afraid Lovecraft was a raging bigot even by his era's standards. The man was working with archaic English-styled racism, you see. Where skin colour was coupled with "good breeding" to discriminate against more-or-less everyone outside of an extremely small margin. He expressed this rabid distrust of more-or-less everyone in his early works, and my GOD is it extreme. Keep in mind this was a man who had a paranoid distrust of air conditioners when they started showing up in homes. Just imagine the sort of insane stuff such a neurotic mind would come up with when writing about actual people?

This is literally Kafka.

How about you tell us about one of the times assuming the best about a weird stranger paid off for you?

@@remobothic One time a huge man with filthy dreadlocks sat down next to me at a bar, wearing a tattered leather jacket, ripped biker gloves stained with blood, what seemed to be a gunshot scar on his arm, a knife clearly holstered in his belt. After I started talking to him it turns out he was just dressed as a character from a post-apocalyptic novel and coming back from a sci-fi con, and he gave me a copy of one of his comic books he'd written.

@@remobothic Is there no middle ground between assuming the best and assuming the worst of everyone you meet? I normally start with a neutral opinion of people and form my judgement based on what they do or say from there, but is that against the rules?

@@sernoddicusthegallant6986 It's not unreasonable to make basic judgements about people you see based on their appearances and behaviors. Best not to interact with strangers who are visibly on drugs in public, for example.

What's so hard to understand about Italians

​@@rootywho is this "Mama Mia"? Is she the dark twisted beast from beyond the stars that gave birth to Italy?

​@@Flesh_Wizardand how can the Pope live in Italy and not in Italy at the same time? Is this what they call "transubstantiation"?

Of course he did. Bigots are usually hypocrites.

Oh like how I love apple pie

@@piotrbojkoff lol comment.

​@Пётр Бойков Yeah like we can believe slavs need eradication and still enjoy... Imperialism? Rape? Genocide? Landgrabbing? Serfdom? Oh wait, Soviet music!

@Пётр Бойков sanest nationalist

I think I'm blessed because if not I wouldn't have met someone who is as spectacular as expert Charles I think he is the best broker I ever seen.

What the fuck now scambots have other scambots to form "legitimate" conversations with

@@ahumanistpotato0501 Yup....

@@ahumanistpotato0501 It's pretty easy actually; most of it can be simply scripted and automated. Better to report the whole thing rather than engaging, though. :)

Because he had it literally in his hand. Probably had to wash 57 times in the hand basin in his lodging quarters.

It's true to character. Lovecraft was thoroughly racist.

@@TheDJEON Also classist. Being Irish was as bad as being Italian or black to ol' HP. Love his stuff tho. I guess it takes a truly crazy motherfucker to come up with some of that stuff.

Just never ask what his cat's name was

@@matthewblunndel185 To be fair, there's a good chance he didn't name that particular cat, as he was a child and it was a family pet (likely named by his uncle), and he never had another cat as a pet after that IIRC. That said, this doesn't excuse the fact that he kept using that name as a nickname for other black cats (including infamously naming one in a story as an homage) long after he should have known better. Not defending him, for the record, but I feel like it's a detail worth clarifying on that particular anecdote.

This terror can actually be described, and is all the scarier for it.

How about visiting an ASDA in a different town. Only 2 hours parking?! Where are the toilets?! Where do they keep the eggs?! Where is the *REDUCED AISLE?!*

But what if _you're_ the only one who thinks the layout has been switched around, and everyone else considers it just fine, or that 'it's always been this way, hasn't it?' Now, that's cosmic horror fuel.

@@Mevi ...and you get to your car, and realise that you didn't scan your Asda card.....

What was on it?

@@lollikabosso.w.n7153 probably baked beans and bread or spaghetti noodles and sauce depending on when in his life the list was written. Hot Potato Lovecraft did not eat well.

​@@HadalStreetlights and ice cream. It is said he really, really loved ice cream.

:-|

The blasphemous rats in the walls!! Oh dear. I suppose that’s a glass-enclosed terrarium. Ahem…The blasphemous rats in the accursed and ill-kept terrarium, where the foul-scented detritus of long-putrescent wood shavings causes a violent recoil in me when the ghastly odor infects my nostrils. THE HORROR!!!

"I'm here to pick up..." Ohgodohgodohgod😳

Oh no, my cat was touched by a..... Latino??? “Sir he works here, to take care of your cat” *not my cat anymore* Fun fact: H.P.’s cat was literally named the n-word

@@0therW1z As Rainier Wolfcastle once said...

Because this is just a dull copy

He's actually out in public?

Because the one one you're comparing him to is a handful of poorly remembered internet memes, and not a real person?

@@AusSP I'm not saying he was actually mental, just a prick.

Lovecraft wasn't crazy.

Rather sad though, "big box" stores like Walmart shouldn't exist in the first place. They've killed countless tens of thousands of small, family-owned, local businesses and half their employees don't even speak English. It's the worst of capitalism and scourge to any community it digs its claws into.

Truly horrifying

Walmart owns Asda. I mean legally, not competitively. They bought the store that was most like them and made it even more like them.

Will rewatch thanks

We just call it ammunition. The "live" is redundant.

Not as bad as buying anything touched by *the french*

Hey! That line was in the video I watched. Did we just see the same cartoon?

Good job he didn't go to Ikea. The many-dimensional non-Euclidean corridors of endless sofas; the eerie shadows of the deformed desk lamps; the wails of tortured souls trudging sleeplessly from chaise longue to shelving unit...

It's good, but it could have been more squamous and/or rugose

But that’s just the standard of all of ABK’s videos.

@@SheeplessNW6 Or even more singularly abnormal and/or non-Euclidean.

@@SheeplessNW6 I expected more eldrichness, frankly. (Eldricity?)

There were no bas-reliefs or tarpaulins though.

It doesn't go well with gherkins.

Fantastic on hot meat, if I ever have a bacon or sausage sandwich it must be HP sauce.

Noo that is good news chocolate on a sh*t sandwich! I like mock the week. The week so often needs mocking!

10 out of 10 would play a game called "Conspiracy? Coincidence? Cthulhu?"

One is coincidence, twice is conspiracy, three times is Cthulhu.

Complot? Congruence? Calamari?

Do you by chance live near Innsmouth

Crack? Crevase? Crater? Wait, that doesn't sound too different from some Lovecraft stories

I am tormented by the chalky horror that they do keep it in the fridge.

@@wordzmyth I'm with you here, chocolate does not go in the fridge

The Swiss have the most guns per capita and lowest gun crime for one reason and one reason only, the guns are only there for when they hear of someone placing chocolate in to a fridge.

He probably hated chocolate for being brown...

@@shadetreader ouch! 😅

Imagine how black fans of HPL feel when they found out what his cat was called 💀

Then have a tasty meal of authentic margherita pizza with your swarthy family, and toast and/or roast HPL on his birthday.

@@rabbitguts2518 I heard he loved

@@AusSP To my understanding he did, and to be fair there's an extremely good chance that he didn't actually name that particular cat, as this was from his childhood and it was a family pet (likely named by his uncle). Though he did have a fondness for applying that name to other black cats later on in life whether nicknaming specific ones (though he never properly kept one as a pet as an adult, IIRC), using it as a term for black cats in general, or naming one in a story as an homage. This is long after he should have known better, because even in those days he was extreme enough people tried to get him to dial it back, but let's at least apply a tiny grain of credit where credit is due. Not defending him, but at least applying a footnote to one of the most common stories about him.

@@MythicFox Yup, it's not like he was the only one either. Lots of black cats, dogs, horses etc were named things that people would reel at today. In years to come we will be looked on with the same disdain for things our current social model finds perfectly normal - probably the authoritarian cancel culture nightmare we currently live in. Kind of ignorant to judge an indivdual on the overarching social norms of their time tbh.

We actually didn't drop it; the Brits added it in the 19th century to avoid sounding Cockney.

@@Zaarin1 For reals? Very interesting!

@@Zaarin1 That sounds plausable. its also why we cave earls instead of counts like everyone else. Cockneys ruined the latter...

But since Lovecraft was such a dedicated Anglophile, in reality he probably would’ve pronounced it with the “h,” to more perfectly present the sound of a Briton of higher breeding than the lowly Cockney rabble.

@@Zaarin1 The only good thing about Cockernees is that they make the Northerners sound intelligent.

Surprised at the amount of degradation and laughing at agoraphobia and other anxiety disorders and symptoms in this comment section, didn't know that was a common enough thing. (Having a history with these illnesses myself, I wish it wasn't.)

Xenophobic, not racist. Lovecraft was unsettled by anything outside of his own cosy corner of New England culture. Even Penguins.

@@lesigh1749 The neat thing about facts is that more than one of them can be true at once. A house can be tall AND red, for example.

@@lesigh1749 Well, the "albino" comment on the penguin is dead give away that it was meant to be taken as HP a razzist.

@@tylerchristian3557 yet a person who is irrationaly repulsed by anyone or anything different to themself cannot also be described as racist. its litteraly attempting to isolate a single facet of a wider behaviour as if that is their only issue. Much like saying that because a person eats vegitables with their roast beef, they are a vegetarian.

@Marcus Believe it or not, at the time, it would have been. Italians weren't considered white in Lovecraft's time (and the joke here is obviously his aversion to Italians, not an allergy to oregano).

Dark ichor...

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Because the amount of effort you put into the things you make sort of doesn't matter. You can be talented and creative and skilled and hardworking but if people don't like the stuff you make they won't be your audience.

It's not that people don't like it. It's that it's not mainstream popular type content. People do like it a lot, just not a lot of people.