His writing is terrible. Had he ever met another person?
He was married for a short time, if that’s what you mean.
He has a tendency to overwrite. Too much prose, too little dialog.
His strength was his originality and "forceful" vision. As if compelled to write what he did.
His writing is terrible.
The stuff HPL was publishing in the 30s was actually pretty typical of pulp SF of the time. (Dire.)
One wonders what he would have written like if he lived long enough to write for Unknown Worlds.
".. published his first poem, "Providence in 2000 A.D.," in the Providence Evening Journal in 1912. The poem is a satire that describes a future where the white descendants of English heritages have been pushed out by waves of immigrants, who begin to rename everything along their own cultural leanings."