The thing about the HPL piece is that... well, I wanted to like it, because there's not enough Lovecraftian humor. But it falls flat for me because it tries to use HPL as a character. Lovecraft the individual was a witty letter-writer, and, unlike in his stories, he used lots of humor and self-reflexive irony. (I wish there were some decent examples available online--if there were, I would put a pushy link here.)

They're confusing him with his characters. It's as though they used Tolkien as a character and had him speak in pseudo-Biblical backward Silmarillion syntax and say "Behold!" a lot and begin all his sentences with "And". Or had Conan Doyle say "Elementary" and shoot up cocaine.

/HPL fangirl ahoy

/hisletterswerehisbestworkofliterature

/okayI'llstopnow

(I do like the last exchange, though, I'll admit.)