>>911914The scientific adventure genre was popular at the time. Some white guy builds a rocket or a time machine, meets aliens that are either talking animals or sexy bitches, befriends some and fights others, then returns for the glory of mankind. See Jules fucking Verne. Lovecraft said no, that's not how it would go. We are a spider caught in an open jar. If we somehow got out by spinning our webs into a ladder instead of just the same old web, our only hope of survival would to not be noticed. That was novel at the time. It was a cynical twist on what had been young adult fiction. People took the idea and ran with it, and always credited Lovecraft for having started it. Later, all these descriptions of monsters in the public domain made great horror movie fodder.
