January 1, 2024

Greetings Everyone!

 It is common knowledge among readers that H. P. Lovecraft, the greatest writer of horror and science fiction since Edgar Allan Poe, was a racist—a particularly vitriolic, more than average racist, in fact, whose fictional and nonfictional works are peppered with racist images.

Most readers, also, can point to Lovecraft’s two most egregious racist works: “The Horror at Red Hook” and the particularly noxious poem “On the Creation of Niggers,” as especially disheartening examples.

However, the extent of Lovecraft’s racism is not generally understood. Nor is it commonly understood how Lovecraft’s racial hatred impacted nearly all of his greatest fictional works, making them even greater and ultimately transforming them into disturbing, anxiety-ridden masterpieces.

Check out my new book, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft! The book will be released on January 11, 2024 and it is the definitive, book-length study that addresses all of these issues and concerns.

Happy New Year!

https://www.amazon.com/Horror-Racism-H-Lovecraft-Fragility/dp/B0C5CPHCR2

JLS

December 26, 2023

 Please check out my new book, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft!  And I hope everyone will have a Happy New Year! 

   

December 25, 2023

 Merry Christmas Everyone!

JLS

December 4, 2023

 

Check out my  new  book!  

The title is : Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales.  The release date is January 11, 2024.

In this book, I provide a new perspective on Lovecraft's life and work, focusing on the overlap between the writer's personal beliefs and the racist images and narratives in his speculative fiction.

Building on recent debates about Lovecraft and drawing on the concept of "white fragility," I argue  that the writer's fiction reflects his feelings of resentment and anger towards non-white persons and was used to advocate for his racist, xenophobic political beliefs – that western civilization was in decline and slavery was justifiable among "superior" civilizations. In making these claims, Lovecraft's tales pit humans against extra-terrestrial aliens, developing a terrifying, futuristic vision of the Earth as a plantation planet.

The book can be pre-ordered now in bookstores across the world and on Amazon, Google, Bloomsbury and other online sites.

JLS