/lit/ - Literature

Why aren’t there more diverse and anti racist Lovecraftian stories to destroy and deconstruct his bigoted worldview?

Only Lovecraft Country really tries

I like the idea of him seething at “inferiors” taking his works and making them better

When, long ago, the gods created Earth
In Jove's fair image Man was shap'd at birth.
The beasts for lesser parts were next design'd;
Yet were they too remote from humankind.
To fill the gap, and join the rest to man,
Th'Olympian host conceiv'd a clever plan.
A beast they wrought, in semi-human figure,
Fill'd it with vice, and call'd the thing a......

What does /lit/ think of HP Lovecraft?
>Considered ridiculously racist even by the standards of the time
>Thought all cultures are worthless except English and American, which was a barely acceptable second-rate knockoff
>Hated all of other people, especially French Canadians
>Hated Nazis and KKK for hating minorities for the wrong reasons
>Learned he was part Welsh, immediately wrote a story about a man learning he was part fish
>Wrote a story about an evil witch turning people into snakes where the plot twist is just that she's a light-skinned black who can pass for white
>Considered Irish to not be fully human, was vague about their other half

Is he worth reading ?

Why didn't he just get a dog?

>>19142724
A /lit/ name, you say?

Looking for stuff related to lovecraft, so far i'm enjoying william hope hodgson

I was watching this documentary about HP Lovecraft

https://youtu.be/FUFnNx0fSm0

And it covered the theory that he was actually transgender and in denial. As detailed by how he called himself a girl when he was young and wore girls clothes for years, and when older absolutely hated how he looked

Could this transgenderism be one of the defining facets that led to her works featuring so much fear of the unknown?

Name a bigger hack

>>18993643
but he had those lips

>>18927492

>>18892218
> GAHUZI VABAHM. BADA ZINGO DUOINGO CHONKA CHONKA

>left New York because there were too many niggers

What's his best book?

>is that
>a building that gets bigger
>AT THE TOP??
>IM GOING INSANE AAAAAAA

I started reading this guy, why didn't you tell me he's so good?

Why’s his head look like a goddamn bar of soap?

Do you know of any works on the history of his reception by audiences and critics?

Lovecraft is Overrated. Everyone goes on and on about how great his stuff is so I picked up At the Mountains of Madness and gave it a shot

Why are you fags obsessed with him. This story supposedly is one of his best ones but its crap. He constantly tries to reinforce how scary the situation is via having the narrorator say "I really don't think I can say this cause I'm so scared but I'm going to". This is constantly restated along with descriptions of the location (I assume in an effort to get more mileage out of his story for more $ from the publication he submitted it to).

On top of it we have build up to monsters, with descriptions from the narrorators past studies, and all we are told that he actually sees alive is 6 ft albino penguins. No monstrous squid aliens flying at them. No seeing the dark lake under Antarctica. Nothing but corpses and penguins

This stuff isn't scary. It's literally a hollow shell with an exposition dump.

>>18473455
What if things were so scary, that they were like incomprehensibly scary and made you go INSANE?

>>18381340
I think it's pretty clear anon

>>18370044
Was going to post this kek

>>18314298
New Englander horror
>My grandmother copulated with a niggeur
>My fiance is a jewish frog
>My undulating tentacles have traces of horrid Irish ancestry