H.P. Lovecraft Cancel Campaign Misguided, Author’s Work Endures

A call of destruction has issued forth from the New England coast, threatening oblivion. That’s right: There is an emerging campaign to cancel horror and fantasy writer H. P. Lovecraft. And it’s coming from his hometown of Providence, R.I.

An editorial in GoLocal of Providence takes note of a recent celebration of black artist Edward Mitchell Bannister, while lamenting that “the city continues to allow public commemorations of H.P. Lovecraft, a talented horror writer, and documented anti-Semite and racist.” For this publication, Lovecraft’s assertions such as, “The Negro is fundamentally the biological inferior of all White and even Mongolian races” and admissions such as, “Just as some otherwise normal men hate the sight or presence of a cat, so have I hated the presence of a Jew” make arguments that “Lovecraft’s writings were in a ‘place and time’ . . . disingenuous.” A previous piece in the same outlet provides ample evidence for his prejudiced mindset, citing his comments about blacks, Jews, Asians, and Latinos and his praise of the film Birth of a Nation.

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A call of destruction has issued forth from the New England coast, threatening oblivion. That’s right: There is an emerging campaign to cancel horror and fantasy writer H. P. Lovecraft. And it’s coming from his hometown of Providence, R.I.

An editorial in GoLocal of Providence takes note of a recent celebration of black artist Edward Mitchell Bannister, while lamenting that “the city continues to allow public commemorations of H.P. Lovecraft, a talented horror writer, and documented anti-Semite and racist.” For this publication, Lovecraft’s assertions such as, “The Negro is fundamentally the biological inferior of all White and even Mongolian races” and admissions such as, “Just as some otherwise normal men hate the sight or presence of a cat, so have I hated the presence of a Jew” make arguments that “Lovecraft’s writings were in a ‘place and time’ . . . disingenuous.” A previous piece in the same outlet provides ample evidence for his prejudiced mindset, citing his comments about blacks, Jews, Asians, and Latinos and his praise of the film Birth of a Nation.