Don't read "The Horror at Red Hook" then. You'll probably laugh so much you'll pee your pants. 👌
Quite true. Btw, Victor LaValle has recently written a novella called "The Ballad of Black Tom" where he reimagines "The Horror at Red Hook" from the perspective of an African-American protagonist. The book is quite good and takes the story in an interesting direction. https://lemmy.world/post/16605709
I’ve read most of Lovecraft’s work and liked it. In other stories Lovecraft worked on, racism and xenophobia were part of the narrative. But in "The Mound" and "Medusa’s Coil," he ends the stories with a punchline like sentence, making them seem like long racist jokes.
They probably were. HP didn't spare many in his stories (or letters). He even coined the term "white trash" to describe poor white people from a lower class and remote villages.
His cameo in "Rats in the Walls" was crazy!
H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos is a shared universe far larger and more terrifying than that of humanity, where ancient, malevolent beings known as the Great Old Ones slumber in the depths of space or time. After Lovecraft's death, the Mythos has been expanded and developed by many authors, including August Derleth, Clark Ashton Smith, and Robert E. Howard. These and many other authors have helped to flesh out the Mythos into a rich and complex Dark Universe.
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