We've all met them, unfortunately: Characters who are so stupid we wish they were dead.
Unfortunately,
Lovecraft is at the top of this list.
Any narrator who wants to give us a description of a flabby-lipped creature intent on killing the narrator, while said narrator simply MUST continue typing....well, that narrator deserves to die.
Lovecraft was right on the money in killing off most of his narrators. They couldn't speak a lick of dialogue, but boy! they sure could write some doozy descriptions of nameless horrors!
It makes one wonder if the character is at fault, or is the writer too stupid to realize that a character is too stupid for the story?
NOTE: I actually love Lovecraft's work, but he sure did know how to create stupid characters. Sometimes, it's good to go out and get a couple of drinks and then get....[hehehe].