Look at contemporary accounts, where people who knew him discuss the issue: https://books.google.com/books?id=nT3eBlU9YbUC&lpg=PA8&dq=lovecraft%20Charles%20Isa

Look at contemporary accounts, where people who knew him discuss the issue: https://books.google.com/books?id=nT3eBlU9YbUC&lpg=PA8&dq=lovecraft%20Charles%20Isaacson&pg=PA8#v=onepage&q&f=false https://books.google.com/books?id=nT3eBlU9YbUC&lpg=PA8&dq=lo... I won't argue that his beliefs were wholly out of touch with his contemporaries. But arguing that Lovecraft was typical of the time, particularly in the circles he ran in in New York at the time, is ignoring the evidence.