I may be nine years too late to make any kind of difference, but I would caution against any strong attachment to H.P. Lovecraft in particular due to his astounding racism. His fears about the unknown and the “others” are perhaps most apparently race-related in The Shadow Over Innsmouth (it’s easy to see how the fishmen are an allegorical representation of people with skin colors Lovecraft didn’t like) but in general I think the fact that Lovecraft was super racist is a compelling reason not to hold him up as an icon of rationality, even if some of the non-racist or only-racist-in-context themes of his work are valuable or relatable.
I may be nine years too late to make any kind of difference, but I would caution against any strong attachment to H.P. Lovecraft in particular due to his astounding racism. His fears about the unknown and the “others” are perhaps most apparently race-related in The Shadow Over Innsmouth (it’s easy to see how the fishmen are an allegorical representation of people with skin colors Lovecraft didn’t like) but in general I think the fact that Lovecraft was super racist is a compelling reason not to hold him up as an icon of rationality, even if some of the non-racist or only-racist-in-context themes of his work are valuable or relatable.