What can I say? This is just indulgence on my part as I have read these before, but not on Kindle. It is a bit repetitive, and certainly racist by modern standards, as well as mildly anti-semitic. He cannot really do female characters and the adverbs and adjectives become very familiar. Clark Aston Smith and James Branch Caball are much better writers in this genre, but Lovecraft was the inventor and the founder of New England Gothic, and seminal to many others. Jack Vance and others did it better but he was first and his icons remain.