Greetings Everyone!
I hope that all of you will pick up a copy of my
recent book, Horror as Racism in H.
P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales!
Lovecraft lost his
privileged lifestyle in his teen years, when he and his mother were forced to
move out of their Providence Rhode
Island mansion and live instead in rented rooms located just blocks from their
former house.
This was the most traumatic event in Lovecraft’s life
and his racial hatred against non-whites intensified, for he could see that he
and his mother weren’t as privileged or superior to these so-called inferior
races as he had believed.
This event, also, triggered a pattern of loss and
failure that characterized Lovecraft’s life from that moment onwards: whenever
he faced a crisis, he would freeze up and be unable to
act—thus, whatever he was trying to accomplish usually ended up in
failure.
The pattern of loss and failure is evident not only in
the various personal crises that Lovecraft found himself having to face in his
adult life, but we see this same pattern of behavior reflected in the lives and
careers of the fictional protagonists in his major works.
You can read all about Lovecraft’s personal traumas
and the psychological problems that plagued him in my book!
All of these traumas and problems laid the foundation
for most of his greatest tales especially “The Rats in the Walls,” The Case
of Charles Dexter Ward, “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” and “The Dreams in the
Witch-House”.
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-racism-in-h-p-lovecraft-9798765107690/
JLS
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