I recognize all the books written by male authors, the books written by white women pre-1980, 1 of the books written by a black male, but none of the books written by black women (who comprise over 20% of the Top 50, incredible!)Does this make me evil or just ill-informed??"H.P. Lovecraft’s imagination endures in countless derivations of his Cthulhu Mythos, but his bigotry remains a cancer at the heart of it all. Most imitators borrow the lore, but ignore the ideology. In The Ballad of Black Tom, Victor LaValle takes a different approach, choosing to explore the events of Lovecraft’s notoriously racist “The Horror at Red Hook” from the Black point-of-view of Lavalle’s own protagonist, Tommy Tester. Though there are ‘Old Ones’ aplenty, LaValle’s retelling suggests that cosmic peril is of less consequence to the Black community than the threat of white power. After all, the book asks, “What was indifference compared to malice?”https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g37676766/scary-horror-books/
>>24115165>explore the events of Lovecraft’s notoriously racist “The Horror at Red Hook” from the Black point-of-viewPASS.
>>24115165Black women are just the Jews most favorite pets as they are the polar opposite of a white male whom they seek to replace.
>>24115165I am so fucking sick of fanfiction told from the woman's/black person's/villain's point of view. It's lazy, unimaginative, and derivative.