Reminds me of Woodrow Wilson.
Maybe I just have a high facial tolerance or something, but I don’t think you’re odd looking, except for the beard - but then, we don’t really know what’s under the beard. If it’s hiding a second face or something, that would be odd.
Thanks for the tale, Cal. Reading it makes me feel as though I’ve done something to acknowledge Halloween properly (besides inhaling that king-size Three Musketeers bar, that is).
I admire Mr. King deeply, but never have I been able to convince myself for one moment that he’s an attractive man.
Maybe I’m not calibrated properly, but not one of the pictures posted here has looked weird to me.
Some “what celebrity do you look like” site spit out Lovecraft for me. The picture they used looks more normal than the freakishly elongated head picture in the OP.
That’s my housemate!
He looks like some mash-up between Stephen Fry and John Hurt.
I say, if I were casting an HPL biopic, I’d have Paul Reubens and Matthew Modine on the list. Work wonders with a little cotton or prosthesis for an underbite.
I’d probably call up one of my best friends from childhood, however. He looks just like him.
Younger Lovecraft- Crispin Glover, older Lovecraft- Jeremy Irons.
I just knew HPL could not be defeated by death as we know it . . .
BTW, for a brief and entertaining account of HPL’s life story, see Literary Swordsmen and Sorcerers, by L. Sprague de Camp (who also wrote a full-length biography of Lovecraft, which I have not read).
That’s exactly what I thought the instant I saw that pic.
I thought when I saw that pic (in an homage to MST3K)
“Michael Phelps! No!”
The photo of him in the OP makes me think of what a pissed off Jim Nabors would look like. Kind of hard to be creeped out by a guy who says, “And then, Shazam! There was cthulhu!” 
Jim Nabors. Another bump in the lower lip. What causes that? Is it extra flesh on the upper part of the chin or is it something going on with gums and teeth? Michele Obama has a little bit of that too.
OP photo = a pissed off confused Adam Sandler.
I’m definitely seeing some Adam Sandler in there too.
On an unrelated note, Adam Sandler must be the happiest freakin’ guy on the planet. You know how hard it is to find a decent picture of him where he’s not grinning? But if he ever stopped smiling, he’d look a lot like H.P Lovecraft. Just saying.
I don’t think his actual features are too unusual. That bump under his lower lip and his prominent ears would prevent him from being considered conventionally handsome, but plenty of men aren’t very handsome.
His facial expression is pretty creepy, though. If he looked relaxed and had a cheerful smile I don’t think he’d be particularly odd looking. But in the OP’s picture Lovecraft looks like a man who’s been suppressing homicidal rage for a long time and may or may not be able to keep doing so much longer. He’s like a mild-mannered civil servant who’ll one day snap and shoot everyone in his office.
Specifically I’d say it looks like his jaw is clenched, his are lips pressed together tightly, and his forehead is tense. His eyebrows also appear to be lowered in a scowl, although judging from the other photos I think he actually just has shadows under his eyebrows in the OP’s picture. In the OPs picture it also looks like his eyes aren’t quite aligned. His left eye (the viewer’s right) seems to be turned slightly outward while his right is pointed straight ahead.
Besides it all, he remains youthful in appearance even into late age. That is his gene, the diaphony of the gibbonous fish folk. He does remain Youth. The Youth of the the Knowing, that which only ochre words and insane chatters, can ward hoariness.
It’s because through his elderich knowledge he foresaw that one day someone would make “The Dunwich Horror” starring Dean Stockwell. I’d be pissed too.