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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H.P. Lovecraft
H.P. Lovecraft is very, very racist; he's racist in a way that goes beyond "time" and "upbringing", beyond background eccentricities or quirks. His racism pervades his world-view, it is intrinsically tied to his fear of the vast unknown and the Other and made all the more pathetically, gratingly obnoxious by his propensity for embellishment and grandiosity: it is intrinsically tied to what makes him a "great" writer.
Lovecraft's fiction seems to be an amazing trampoline of imagination, teasing your mind along, hinting and provoking in all the right ways. Beyond that he was simply an incredible aesthete; "Lovecraftian" is now a recognizable, cohesive adjective, distinct from "fantasy", "horror", "sci-fi" and all their constituents, can apply to any medium and extends beyond what he himself crafted with it.
My favorite story was "Celephais".
Lovecraft's fiction seems to be an amazing trampoline of imagination, teasing your mind along, hinting and provoking in all the right ways. Beyond that he was simply an incredible aesthete; "Lovecraftian" is now a recognizable, cohesive adjective, distinct from "fantasy", "horror", "sci-fi" and all their constituents, can apply to any medium and extends beyond what he himself crafted with it.
My favorite story was "Celephais".