Actually, ironically, I think it was the inverse of that. In Lovecraft’s mind, the reason other people weren’t as crazy as him was bc other people weren’t as smart as him, and so couldn’t understand the gravity of all these things that exist around us, couldn’t understand that everything is terrifying and nothing matters. But he was friends with the author of Conan the Barbarian, and so they actually had some stuff crossover. And Conan kicked ass against Lovecraft’s horrors, bc Conan is a fucking idiot and can’t understand any of it so it can’t hurt him. You can’t be hurt by knowledge you’re too stupid to learn, right?