Scott Fitzgerald lived during Lovecraft’s time. It goes far beyond casual “man of his time” attitudes (and increasingly, of our time). Lovecraft’s xenophobic loathing begins to seem like an almost pathological hatred and fear of anyone different, and of any kind of change in the nation’s makeup. As Houellebecq said, it is racism itself that raises in Lovecraft a ‘poetic trance.’” China Miéville, for example, writes “I follow in thinking that Lovecraft’s oeuvre, his work itself, is inspired by and deeply structured with race hatred. Were these simply private political opinions and nothing more, there might not be sufficient reason to read them into his work, but as several people have argued convincingly, Lovecraft’s opinions form the basis of so much of his work.
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