April 29, 2026

Greetings Everyone!

Check out my first book: H. P. Lovecraft & the Black Magickal Tradition! You can get it in book stores, and at various online sites throughout the US and the world, including Amazon and Red Wheel /Weiser LLC.  I hope all of you will pick up a copy!

Richard Lupoff, renowned sf author, writes: “Was Lovecraft merely a writer of horror stories or was there something more to his works?... In H.P. Lovecraft and the Black Magickal Tradition, John L. Steadman addresses this question head-on...Steadman’s scholarship is impressive and the revelations in his book may well be as shocking to skeptics (including me!) as they are reassuring to believers.  I recommend this book unreservedly to any admirer of Lovecraft, whichever camp the reader may belong to.”

Perhaps, you may find some revelations of your own when you read it! 

https://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Black-Magickal-Tradition-Influence/dp/157863587X

John L. Steadman 

April 28, 2026

 Greetings Everyone!

Check out my second  book: Aliens, Robots & Virtual Reality Idols in the Science Fiction of H. P. Lovecraft, Isaac Asimov and William Gibson.   You can get it in book stores, and on Amazon and other online sites throughout the US and the world.  I hope all of you will pick up a copy!

David Simmons, Lovecraft scholar, writes: “Steadman’s comprehensive guide wrestles with the concept of the ‘alien’, applying cutting edge theoretical and philosophical ideas to the work of some of the greats of Science Fiction to arrive at the set of exciting, new discoveries about what the genre says it means to be ‘human’.  Reading Aliens, Robots and Virtual Reality Idols guarantees that you will never look at the writing of Lovecraft, Asimov or Gibson in the same way again.”

Perhaps you will, in fact, look at the works of these writers differently after reading my book! 

https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Reality-Science-Fiction-Lovecraft/dp/178904510X

John L. Steadman

March 26, 2026

 Greetings Everyone!

Always thank God for your blessings! And never stand in the way of God's judgement.

JLS

February 24, 2026

Greetings Everyone!

My new book, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales, was recently published by Bloomsbury! I hope that all of you will pick up a copy!

Lovecraft scholar Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock, in his essay “Tekeli-li: Poe, Lovecraft, and the Suspicion of Sameness” (2017) poses these questions: “If the affective power of a text is derived from retrograde sociopolitical points of view, to what extent is the reader who enjoys the works implicated in approving of and disseminating those opinions?  How, in short, should we read—and teach—racist texts?” 

After reading Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft, the reader should be in a better position to answer these questions, and though a few readers might find the answers easy, the majority, I think, will find them even more difficult.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-racism-in-h-p-lovecraft-9798765107690/

JLS 

January 30, 2026

Greetings Everyone!

My newest book, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales, has been recently published by Bloomsbury!  I hope that all of you will pick up a copy!

Paul Rolland, Lovecraft scholar and author, writes: “The deficiencies of the man do not....debase the quality of his best work.  If anything, they invest it with a twisted passion that is missing from his more fantastic fiction.”

"Twisted passion” is the perfect phrase to describe Lovecraft’s work, especially the racist works.  One could argue, in fact, that this twisted  passion enhanced Lovecraft's fiction, especially the hybrid, degenerative monster tales, making them much more frightening and  investing them with raging, nearly psychotic emotion.

You may agree with this, or not.  But my book is, at the very least, an attempt to study and understand exactly how passionate and twisted Lovecraft really was.

So, please check it out!

JLS

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-racism-in-h-p-lovecraft-9798765107690/

January 5, 2026

Greetings Everyone!

It is now a New Year and I hope that all of you will develop resolutions that will make this year better than the last!  I hope, also, that you will put those resolutions into practice and be happy and productive!  

My book, Horror as Racism in H. P. Lovecraft: White Fragility in the Weird Tales, was recently published by Bloomsbury!   Please check it out!

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: western civilization is in decline due to unrestrained immigration, miscegenation and hybridism; and, 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.

https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-racism-in-h-p-lovecraft-9798765107690/

John L. Steadman

 

December 2, 2025

Greetings Everyone!

It is December and I hope all of you will check out my three books! They make great Christmas gifts!  

For indeed, if you think about it, what will put you in the holiday mood more quickly than to read about the Great Old Ones, human insignificance and the bondage of space-time?!

Lovecraft's extra-terrestrial, terrestrial and transdimensional entities share much in common with the alien entities of other great science fiction writers such as Isaac Asimov and William Gibson: they are malevolent and thoroughly incommensurable. 

Lovecraft’s aliens, also, have had a profound influence on contemporary magical practitioners and have become a legitimate basis for working magical systems, particularly the black magical systems. 

Additionally, the power of these entities is fueled by Lovecraft's racism: a violently, vitriolic racism, in fact, which argues that western civilization is in decline and slavery is justifiable among "superior" civilizations such as the Elder Things and the Great Race. 

If that doesn't say "Merry Christmas," then I don't know what does! 

 JLS

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

https://www.amazon.com/Virtual-Reality-Science-Fiction-Lovecraft/dp/178904510X

https://www.amazon.com/Lovecraft-Black-Magickal-Tradition-Influence/dp/157863587X