A Halloween Lovecraft Fright Night

Just spotted this quote from the late, great, H.P Lovecraft, entirely appropriate for late on Halloween night, and just had to repost it.

The reference for this is the blog “The Mystery of the Haunted Vampire.”  The passage is reportedly from a 1936 letter.

“As for the Republicans—how can one regard seriously a frightened, greedy, nostalgic huddle of tradesmen and lucky idlers who shut their eyes to history and science, steel their emotions against decent human sympathy, cling to sordid and provincial ideals exalting sheer acquisitiveness and condoning artificial hardship for the non-materially-shrewd, dwell smugly and sentimentally in a distorted dream-cosmos of outmoded phrases and principles and attitudes based on the bygone agricultural-handicraft world, and revel in (consciously or unconsciously) mendacious assumptions (such as the notion that real liberty is synonymous with the single detail of unrestricted economic license or that a rational planning of resource-distribution would contravene some vague and mystical ‘American heritage’…) utterly contrary to fact and without the slightest foundation in human experience? Intellectually, the Republican idea deserves the tolerance and respect one gives to the dead.”

I venture a guess that H.P. Lovecraft was a Democrat.  Who knew?  But, it’s comforting to know that some things just never change.

Happy Halloween.  The real fright night is Tuesday.