H.P. Lovecraft’s racism, if recent publications are an accurate indication, is slowly being understood to be not merely an embarrassing personal failing, or the product of a conservative New England upbringing at the turn of the twentieth century. Early apologists viewed Lovecraft’s racism as an unimportant element that occasionally surfaced in the background of his literature; today it is viewed as a key element in understanding Lovecraft’s fiction and the nature of the world he created with it.
http://www.contrasoma.com/writing/lovecraft.html
maybe that’s the cat in the picture with him he had called ‘nigger man’
reading now, quite interesting.
Section on ‘The Thing on the Doorstep’ is really good. The sections on sexuality and sex within Lovecraft’s writing are the most interesting parts of this essay.
(via hate-wizard)
