== Racism issue again == 

 Actually, there is no need to white-wash Lovecraft's racism: it should be accepted as part of his mental furniture, though with him racism doesn't seem to have been that virulent, more like an abstraction. I've read one of Lovecraft's verses where he descibes Blacks ("niggers" in his verse) as representing a stage between humans and animals-so, he was definitely racist, but he wouldn't go burn a black Church or anything, he was an armchair racist, much of his racism due to his conservative frame of mind. He was an Anglophile who looked askance at almost all other groups.