Read a few Lovecraft stories today, and I was impressed by the originality of his vision

I checked out the Library of America collection of HP Lovecraft's tales, and I perused it a little bit today. The ones I read were "The Horror at Red Hook" and "He." Both, interestingly, were very similar on a thematic level. They were about New York City, and how the horrible urban conglomeration will overwhelm the earth with its mongrel hordes (yes, L…