What Do H.P. Lovecraft and Dan Brown Have in Common?

Apparently I write like them. Or at least that is what I am told by the website "I Write Like."

I pasted a passage from my forthcoming Was America Founded as a Christian Nation: A Historical Introduction and the website compared my writing to Dan Brown, author of the Da Vinci Code.

Then I pasted a long passage from The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America and the site compared me to the early twentieth-century "weird fiction" writer H.P. Lovecraft. I was not expecting that.

Finally, I provided an excerpt from my essay on teaching Abraham Lincoln from our forthcoming Confessing History: Explorations in Christian Faith and the Historian's Vocation and I was once again compared to Lovecraft.

I don't read a lot of fiction, and do not think I have every read any "weird fiction," but I will have to give something by Lovecraft a try.

Try it out for yourself and post your "likeness" in the comments section.