A lot of horror stuff tickles the same as anti-immigrant panic, “humanoid figure with unusual proportions and skin tone kidnapping little girls” isn’t some racist stereotype about immigrants but Slenderman, there’s also a history of racism in it, like how Voodoo is depicted and the origins of Zombies.
Exactly this. Lovecraft being as prominent as he is doesn’t help. His stuff is great but it’s hard to ignore the xenophobic and racist undertones. Guillermo Del Toro is probably the best horror creative in the Spanish speaking world and I hope we continue to see more like him.
I personally enjoy topics of horror that involve the unknown or exaggerated forms of the supernatural. It’s getting better but there’s still a long way to go.
Lovecraft called me slurs I didn’t even know existed. I’ve never had someone disparage my mom with such impressive and precise vocabulary.
I still can’t get over him going into an existential crisis, losing his shit, and then writing all his family members because he found out his great aunt or whatever the fuck was Welsh. Lovecraft had some big-brained 600 IQ views on race I will never understand.
Lovecraft had some big-brained 600 IQ views on race I will never understand.
And I semi-ironically love him for that. I love reading Lovecraft not because his stories are scary — they aren’t — but because it’s hilarious to read them knowing they come from the perspective of a white guy who is grappling with anxiety that the White Race may not in fact be the masters of all creation. Reading them from that perspective makes a lot of it funny. Like oh, what’s so horrible is that he realized he’s not at the top of the world. Normal people already know that.
A lot of horror stuff tickles the same as anti-immigrant panic, “humanoid figure with unusual proportions and skin tone kidnapping little girls” isn’t some racist stereotype about immigrants but Slenderman, there’s also a history of racism in it, like how Voodoo is depicted and the origins of Zombies.
Exactly this. Lovecraft being as prominent as he is doesn’t help. His stuff is great but it’s hard to ignore the xenophobic and racist undertones. Guillermo Del Toro is probably the best horror creative in the Spanish speaking world and I hope we continue to see more like him.
I personally enjoy topics of horror that involve the unknown or exaggerated forms of the supernatural. It’s getting better but there’s still a long way to go.
Lovecraft called me slurs I didn’t even know existed. I’ve never had someone disparage my mom with such impressive and precise vocabulary.
I still can’t get over him going into an existential crisis, losing his shit, and then writing all his family members because he found out his great aunt or whatever the fuck was Welsh. Lovecraft had some big-brained 600 IQ views on race I will never understand.
And I semi-ironically love him for that. I love reading Lovecraft not because his stories are scary — they aren’t — but because it’s hilarious to read them knowing they come from the perspective of a white guy who is grappling with anxiety that the White Race may not in fact be the masters of all creation. Reading them from that perspective makes a lot of it funny. Like oh, what’s so horrible is that he realized he’s not at the top of the world. Normal people already know that.