Greetings Everyone!
Autumn is here! My
favorite season, and right around the corner, October—my favorite month!
I’ve got a new book coming out the first of the new year. I’ll provide more information about that in November and December. The title is Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales, published by Bloomsbury, the #1 academic publishing firm in the UK and the US. The book is available in both hardcover and paperbound and it can be pre-ordered now on Google, Amazon, and numerous other sites and bookstores.
Ray Bradbury describes autumn in his book The October
Country as:
“That country where it is always turning late in the
year. That country where the hills are
fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights
linger, and midnights stay. That country
composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and
pantries faced away from the sun. That
country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty
walks sound like rain....”
In another book, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Bradbury
warns us against the autumn people, whom he claims are soulless, evil things
that seek to ensnare humans. But
Bradbury is wrong about that.
For there are autumn people who have souls & are not
evil; they love autumn & celebrate the death of the year & the renewal
that always follows.
JLS
