what's the deal with evil hat?
They invited themselves to the culture war without being asked. They released a Lovecraft setting and spent at least one full page of the book excoriating the man whose work they'd taken to sell for money.
This confuses me. I mean I like Lovecrafts writings but does anybody actually think he was a lovely bloke? I don't see the massive doublethink here unless you're angry about people making money of a racist. Damn those awfule people.
Firstly, why even mention his views? Just make a scary monster book.
If you are going to mention him, a one sentence disclaimer gives you CYA protection. Writing an extensive bit taking a dump on the man whose work you're making money from is both petty and hypocritical. It's like the people who love Harry Potter, but can't mention the series without lambasting the authoress.
If Mein Kampf could sell millions of dollars worth of games, these turds would happily produce them, while holding their snoots high in the air.
For my own personal opinion, H.P.L. was a disturbed man, whose father was institutionalized, leaving him to be raised by a neurotic mother (who was later institutionalized.) He wasn't a racist so much as he was raised to think everyone but a Rhode Island WASP was some kind of sub-human mud-person. It went well beyond race, he thought the Welsh were Untermensch for Christ sakes.
He was a pitiable basket case, but the demons running around in his head resulted in works of fiction that have influenced ALL 20th century horror to a small or greater degree. If someone is too baby-brained to separate art from artist, maybe they shouldn't make a buck off of said artist?