cenobitic-anchorite:

feelboss:

a-spoon-is-born:

kakaphoe:

thefingerfuckingfemalefury:

leviathan-supersystem:

merely saying “hp lovecraft was racist” doesn’t really capture the scope of it, like most people hear that and they go “yeah no shit it was like 100 years ago, most people were really racist” but the thing was the dude was especially racist even for the time

like just contemplate how unbelievably racist someone would have to be to stand out as especially racist for the 1910′s and 20′s

Like the guy wrote entire stories about how he thought interracial couples would lead to Fish Monsters ._.

It was even weirder than that, it was that he thought himself monstrous because he had Welsh relatives and he was scared of the “genetic degeneracy” inside himself and the Fish Monsters were an expression of that horror.

So it’s never really been about cosmic horror, it’s about being scared that what is outside in the void is also actually inside you.

So take that horrible bigot shit, magnify it hundreds of times, and then you’re getting close to what he probably thought of mixed race people.

I believe people should read his own words, there’s no “probably”. He literally called for genocide of Black, Asian, and pretty much every non-white American on multiple occasions, and was so antisemitic his wife listed it as grounds for divorce.

It’s worse than most people would even imagine. Warning for racial slurs, dehumanization, and genocide at the link.

There is a reason the Hitler Or Lovecraft test exists and is so difficult.

The way I’ve dealt with this – because I love cosmic horror but also disavow Lovecraft’s internalized awfulness – is to look towards the creators that have reclaimed the genre and reworked what Lovecraft started. People like John Carpenter and Guillermo Del Toro for film, and writers like King and Gaiman, Ligotti and Stross. Anyone that hews too close to Lovecraft’s roots – like old Bloch – I usually ignore.

There’s literary validity in looking at what Lovecraft made and building on it, building it back towards what it should have been, the unknown creeping behind the veil of what we think we understand, but it definitely serves nothing to ignore that he himself left behind a legacy atop a hugely broken pedestal.