User blog comment:Mikemacdee/Best of Lovecraft (and Other Thoughts)/@comment-30354437-20171012160145

I read everything Lovecraft wrote, even his corrections of others' works (he often ended up completely rewriting them but he never took credit) and I say my favourite ones are "Cool Air" and the one in which an explorer discovers a buried city of crocodile-like man, sadly, I do not know the english title.

Lovecraft was not actually racist, I think. He must have been mental issues that made him hate everyone he deemed ugly (his mother did not let him go out because she claimed he was ugly). In a short tale, again, I sadly do not recall the english title, nor the italian one, he makes a terrible description of a man, describing him like he is a sub-human, I seem to recall, but he was really not a black man, but a hillbilly.