PeSuit and Tie

  books of the week currently reading h.p. lovecraft's great tales of horror . while the dialogue is a bit hard to understand (rural english from literally 100 years ago), the stories are fantastical and creepy. the way to describes the rural countryside of new england between 1916 and 1930, when you put it in context, it was a creepy time: world war i, the great depression, it reminds me of the ohio countryside and the horrors hiding in grain silos. it also reminds me of the movies pearl   and the devil all the time . my literal roman empire is the dust bowl, old rural americana, the american gothic.  there were some parts of most stories that were in true form racist: all these evils came from non-white groups. mentions of voodoo among new orleans african americans, the "evil book" necronomicon coming from an arabic author, and a racist portrayal of the innuit in the cthuhlu story itself. lovecraft was indeed a white supremacist, according to his wikipedia. check o...