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 21, 2026

Greetings Everyone!

There is the Qabalah of two dimensions.  This is the gnosis of Aleister Crowley.

There is the Qabalah of three dimensions.  This is the gnosis of Frater Achad and Kenneth Grant.

There is the fourth dimension.  There is no Qabalah and no gnosis for the fourth dimension. This is Lovecraft country. 

John L. Steadman

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