Greetings Everyone!
My new book, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft:
White Fragility in the Weird Tales, was recently released by Bloomsbury, the
foremost academic publisher in the United States and in the United Kingdom!
I hope that all of you will pick up a copy; you can
order it online from the publishers and, of course, from Amazon and other
online booksellers around the world. The
book is also available in bookstores here in the states as well as overseas.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-racism-in-h-p-lovecraft-9798765107690/
Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft is the first,
book-length study that addresses the topic of Lovecraft’s racism and white
privilege. The book will show for the
first time the full extent of Lovecraft’s racism, which ranges from the early
works—the hybrid, degenerative monsters tales, as I refer to them, to the
later, mature works—the great tales, as they are sometimes called, where
Lovecraft’s extra-terrestrial alien races—all of them cosmic slave
masters—square off against their own manufactured slave races and, in certain
cases, human slaves as well.
The book, in particular, studies how Lovecraft uses
his racial hatred creatively by developing racist images and narratives to
advocate for his xenophobic political beliefs: that western civilization is in
decline due to unrestrained immigration, miscegenation and hybridism; and that slavery is not only endemic, but justifiable among superior civilizations,
especially the white, Anglo-Saxon civilizations.
There is no writer in the English language, and
certainly, no writer of comparable magnitude to Lovecraft, who even attempts to
do such a thing. It is, quite literally,
an unprecedented phenomenon.
So, please check it out!
John L. Steadman
