Greetings Everyone!
It's Christmas Eve!
A magical night, when the boundaries between this world and the other worlds are thin and insubstantial. A night when the living can communicate with the dead. A night for those who want to see a ghost!
My favorite ghost stories are "Jerry Bundler," by W. W. Jacobs; "How Fear Departed From the Long Gallery," by E. F. Benson; and "The Crown Derby Plate," by Marjorie Bowen.
Be sure to check them out!
JLS
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.
JLS
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-racism-in-h-p-lovecraft-9798765107690/
