I've deliberately never read Lovecraft -- and don't read much Stephen King, either -- because it's all too easy for my mind to latch onto things and refuse to let go of them. There are some things that I it wise not to put into my mind in the first place.

Not that I'm a Pollyanna -- I'm a therapist in real life, specializing in seeing adults who were physically, sexually, or emotionally abused as children -- so I get my dose of grimness...