I have come to know of Lovecraft's work about 5 years now and have read many of His books and listened to the many audio- books handed over to the public domain.
It goes without saying that He was a little bit of an oddball. However He was a very good writer , and was living within His astral nature and of the creative imagination.
As an occultist myself I have come to a conclusion of sorts in regarding Him as an astral sensitive .

Like the greater bulk of humanity today He was polarized within His astral - emotional body.
However , I think He had limited Himself to only to one certain aspect of the lower astral worlds.
He was an astral sensitive to the lower regions of the astral worlds ,and took a little peep into the realms of the lower worlds and came into contact with beings upon the demon evolution,- as well as other strange evolutionary life streams within the aura of our planetary life and Logo's.

According to my occult intuition Lovecraft had some kind of morbid obsession with the denizens of the lower astral planes wherein dwells the shades of the dead, ''Dark Angels'', the dark elementals , demented fairies , dead and aborted evolutionary pathways due to failures of many sorts , and profoundly influenced by the moon, which is a psychic corps and the decaying shade of our now indwelling planetary life,- or Logo's. The moon is our planetary lives' last incarnation ,and is now a corps.

Lovecraft's inner sight upon these lower astral planes gave Him the inspired awakening to write about His experiences of what He knew of these lower astral planes where endless forms of astral wildlife thrive and have their being.

For a score of months, here within the area (more at: 'scope') of his interests, in Albany (though because of certain experiences imparted to me nearby at "Floor 7 -- initials A.E._." I may well move to Providence) listening to H.P. Lovecraft has become an exercise in sanity. Perhaps through chiaroscuro (The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. {Clair-obscur}. [1913 Webster]) and catharthis. This I avail when I want to, or within a certain enclosure of urgency, when I need to. H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti [or M.R. James; others, including Sheridan le Fanu] are "as good as 10 psychologists." [see art film: "Garlic is as good as 10 Mothers" (this latter case, you may likely tell me, would be rather difficult to show/reify)]. But when MorganScorpion [and 'reads' is not the word, 'performs' also fails as diction... when she becomes H.P. Lovecraft, through this archival organic portal, I am told a story I want to or need to witness, told privately and personally, by H.P. Lovecraft: because MorganScorpion, without any notice and hardly any delay, has somehow disappeared. Certainly, thankfully, during her immeasurably talented telling. www.esperancesp.com would love to learn that she can be afforded... for certain arcane, recondite, unfathomable projects. --lunarvol, in Albany (Same last four as Paramount Studios' street number on Melrose.)