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Plot twist: the story is literally just about a black man minding his own business.
Xenophobic racist mama’s boy. But he wrote some great stories.
pretty sure he hated his mom because she was bonkers abusive towards him
Don’t look up the name of his cat.
It was removedman, I’ll save y’all a click.
Edit: Lemmy removed the first part of his name. Lovecraft didn’t like black people, so You can figure out what it was.
Hmm. I didn’t know Lemmy censored anything. Interesting. Is that per instance or universal?
I believe its an instance thing.
Thanks for the information.
I kinda like removedman as a cat name. Note, I am not being censored for saying the name of Lovecrafts cat.
Hehe removedman
Apparently his parents named the cat.
Not that he… also… didn’t uhhh, not like black people…
From what I’ve read, it was beaten into him by his puritanical, histrionic mother who blamed his father’s syphilis and death on the blacks.
Rhymes with Digger.
Tigger!
Bigger!
It’s interesting to compare Lovecraft to his friend Robert E. Howard (the creator of Conan the barbarian). My impression is that Howard believed in and was fascinated by the stereotype of Africans as savages which was common at that time, but he still had them on the side of the good guys in multiple stories. His writing is certainly not PC by modern standards, but he seems like he was an open-minded guy.
I’ve read his works. Some stories aged better than others. I sometimes had to remind myself that they were written almost a century ago.
If you liked Howard’s Conan stories, check out Robert Jordan’s. (Yes, the Wheel of Time guy.) IMO they’re really good and faithful to the spirit of the originals. The writing is very different from Wheel of Time. It does get quite dark in places.
Thanks, I’ll check them out!
he seems like he was an open-minded guy.
Well that’s certainly one of the takes of all time. He’s widely acknowledged to have been racist even for his time
Who? Howard or Lovecraft?
Ah, I am in fact an idiot who can’t read good or do other things good
Hah, you’re good.
Being a normal racist is for normie writers who don’t write bestsellers, obviously have to have quirks and odds about you so you’re just as interesting as the books you write!
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Or a black person doing — yeah nevermind
I started reading his works and while not badly written I find them uninspired and boring so far, in fact I stopped reading and felt no real desire to come back to it. OMG horrors beyond human imagination! It just gets repetitive after a while. Am I just ignorant?
Quite possibly they’re just not your thing. Agree the writing is not the best but for me it’s the world building and abstract nature of his horror that draw me in which at the time he wrote them were unique and I’d argue continue to be unique as so many people draw from his stories as a source of influence.
My single favorite Howard line is when he talks about “…degenerate Eskimos.”
When I get to hell I’m gonna talk em into putting HP Lovecraft & Ed Wood in a cage match and see who comes out of it the weirdest.
His nightmares were the ones in which his mother refused his advances.
What’s up with Lovecraft? I mean besides his cat’s name, bc as far as i heard, it were his parents who named it. I really wanna know
His dad developed syphilitic halucinations when HP was four years old. He died of untreated syphilis in an insitution when HP was eight.
His mother was a wreck in general and psychologically abusive in his childhood. He grew close to his grandfather, but he died and the family assets were dissolved, leaving HP and his abusive unstable mother living in a small studio apartment, basically, meaning he couldn’t get away from it. She also had a breakdown and died in an institution after only two years after being commited.
Not sure why he’s singled out especially. He was born in 1890. You could throw a rock at that point and hit a sexist, racist, everything-ist.
I’m sure in a 100 years they’ll say the same about us.
Overly Sarcastic Productions did a great little piece on him and his work a while back.
