I really don't like dnfing books. But I just couldn't be bothered with this one. I knew HP Lovecraft was really racist going into this, but I wasn't ready for how apparent his racism would be in his writing. The most obvious example of this was the name of the cat in "The Rats In the Walls", but there were also so many stories where humans cross breaded with creatures and created these horrible monstrosities. And of course white people were always the victims. His writing also just didn't suit my tastes. It was just too verbose and pretentious for me. I really wanted to finish this, especially because there were some stories I enjoyed and so many people whose work I do enjoy were inspired by Lovecraft, like Guillermo Del Toro and Niel Gaiman, but I just couldn't.