Yeah and there are definitely narrators who are more so reliable than others. Like if it’s presented that they’re supposed to be viewed as reliable then it’d be a kind of wasteful analysis to analyze their unreliability when they seem capable in telling the story.
Whereas with Lovecraft or other authors, details get lost/skewed. Some stories are strange and confusing and can mislead people. I’m also reading poetry rn (Petrarchan sonnets) where the speaker is devoted to Laura and she’s seen as like this divine figure almost lol. And there’s a line in one of the sonnets where it talks about her looking at him with her beautiful eyes. Laura doesn’t care about him AND she’s married to another man. The speaker talks about being depressed and that he can’t survive without her… so it’s possible he is just imagining her looking at him, especially since he describes looking at her through a window lol. She’s probably smiling at her husband.
And a notable one I read last year is Notes from Underground where there is what seems to be this cocky and smart narrator, who has this strange view on life and morality. But he also misleads you and in the next part of the book he describes being a loser basically. We can’t really trust what he says because he also says he lies, or right after he’s said something to you he also says that the statement wasn’t truthful. He tries to recollect the whole picture and analyzing himself and he uses all these paraodoxes and he’s speaking directly to us in the first part of it, and then when it ends we realize that he doesn’t plan to publish this, that he is writing this alone because he cannot do anything else. He is outcasted from society with terrible social skills and wasted talents, essentially, underground
You don’t know whether to fully trust his narrative, or any narrator’s because of this acknowledgment of human nature and such. It gets you out of the state (and lovecraft does this as well) of immediately trusting everything a narrator says, and then into the realm of immediately not believing or being curious for another perspective. But this acknowledgment of perspective is interesting because it makes you think about the writers perspective and your own, relating our modern world to the issues of the classical.