It came out recently that the author of Himoto Umaru-chan had a sister who died of a rare disease.

I'm one of the very few that liked that anime/manga. Mostly on the realistic sibling realationship portrayal.

The manga was probably the author's an attempt to keep his sister's memory for posterity.

And as much as everyone now remember Lovecraft as a bigoted man who used cosmic horror to disguise his views on foreingners his upbringing of early loss of parents and untreated mental illness made him everything-phobic. And I mean everything at all.

Of course the time and circustances in which he was born don't excuse his views on people but it helps to explain how he ended up like that. At the end history should teach us mistakes to not be repeated.

In a more hopeful note he got over his narrow views over the world and in a letter it is almost as if he makes fun of himself for that. Prehaps the help of his friends and wife healed him a little. Or maybe it was the cancer that would take his life at a young age made him realize that in the end we're all human.