12-09-2023, 03:50 PM
Medusa's Coil: by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop.
I also recorded a review of the story, but that's the one currently rendering in the background as I make this post. The story is considered to be highly racist, and Lovecraft himself is usually remembered only as a racist to his critics (though he did marry a Jewish woman.) I won't deny that he was a racist during his lifetime in the late 1800s and early 1900's, but it was also a different world then, and I choose to judge literature as it appears on the page, rather than making it about the author... but that's another discussion for the pet peeves thread someday.
I also recorded a review of the story, but that's the one currently rendering in the background as I make this post. The story is considered to be highly racist, and Lovecraft himself is usually remembered only as a racist to his critics (though he did marry a Jewish woman.) I won't deny that he was a racist during his lifetime in the late 1800s and early 1900's, but it was also a different world then, and I choose to judge literature as it appears on the page, rather than making it about the author... but that's another discussion for the pet peeves thread someday.