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; 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, full-length study that addresses the topic of Lovecraft's racial hatred. 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: 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.
So, please
check it out!
John L.
Steadman
