A Black Folks’ Guide to Cthulhu and H.P. Lovecraft

Lovecraft was an unapologetic White supremacist — who just so happened to be one of the most influential figures in 20th-century fiction

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Six years ago, I started writing a horror novel. The idea was to create a contemporary parable that utilizes elements of H.P. Lovecraft’s canon of…