Zealia Bishop stories endings made me laugh 😂.
I've listened to the French audiobooks of two Zealia Bishop stories, and the endings are so absurdly racist that I couldn't help but laugh.
In "Medusa's Coil" :
In "The Mound":
Don't read "The Horror at Red Hook" then. You'll probably laugh so much you'll pee your pants. 👌
Quite true. Btw, Victor LaValle has recently written a novella called "The Ballad of Black Tom" where he reimagines "The Horror at Red Hook" from the perspective of an African-American protagonist. The book is quite good and takes the story in an interesting direction. https://lemmy.world/post/16605709
I’ve read most of Lovecraft’s work and liked it. In other stories Lovecraft worked on, racism and xenophobia were part of the narrative. But in "The Mound" and "Medusa’s Coil," he ends the stories with a punchline like sentence, making them seem like long racist jokes.
They probably were. HP didn't spare many in his stories (or letters). He even coined the term "white trash" to describe poor white people from a lower class and remote villages.
His cameo in "Rats in the Walls" was crazy!