But the man’s blatant racism is also impossible to ignore, especially since it often finds its way onto the pages of his stories. One of the most notorious is The Horror at Red Hook, which follows Detective Thomas Malone as he uncovers a sinister cult in the titular Brooklyn neighborhood. Things that HP Lovecraft was good at: Creating a mythos. .
Things that HP Lovecraft was bad at: Writing dialog.
You need to read the subversive cosmic horror novella The Ballad of Black Tom.
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