Gothic Horror

the haunting of hill house book:

The Witchcraft of Salem Village by Shirley Jackson. Popular Libary, 1976.

Sort of yes and sort of no.

Lovecraft wanted his estate to go to his friend, a young gay man and author named Robert Barlow, but August Derleth was an older cishet white man in the 30s and was like "lol no" and was a cunt about it and also wrecked Barlow's reputation.

It's true that Derleth founded Arkham House in order to publish Lovecraft's work, and ended up essentially preserving generations of weird fiction and pulps that would've otherwise been lost to time more or less single handedly, but he also meddled with Lovecraft's work and made edits that Sucked and his work wasn't restored until ST Joshi did the legwork in like the 90s for it.

He also did a LOT of anti-Native racism. They're all pretty guilty of it, but Derleth's is particularly egregious with the Tcho-Tcho (who should be thrown out completely) and Ithaqua (who needs a lot of work to be decoupled from the W*/ice cannibal from Algonquin/Aashinabe spirituality but is still imo salvageable)

Some of my favorite Giallo final girls (the ones that didn’t end up secretly being the killer or dying at the end of their film)

Deborah (Carroll Baker) - The Sweet Body of Deborah (1968)

Julie Wardh (Edwige Fenech) - The Strange Vice of Mrs. Wardh (1970)

Cleo DuPont (Anita Strindberg) - The Case of the Scorpion’s Tail (1971)

Julie/Mary Harrison (Carroll Baker) - The Devil with Seven Faces (1971)

Greta Franklin (Barbara Bouchet) - Amuck! (1971)

Giulia Torresi (Uschi Glas) - Seven Blood-Stained Orchids (1972)

Jane Harrison (Edwige Fenech) - All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

Eleanor Lorraine (Anne Heywood) - The Killer is on the Telephone (1972)

Valentina (Nieves Navarro) - Death Walks at Midnight (1972)

Kitty Wildenbrück (Barbara Bouchet) - The Red Queen Kills 7 Times (1972)

Jennifer Lansbury (Edwige Fenech) - The Case of the Bloody Iris (1972)

Jane (Suzy Kendall) - Torso (1973)

Sara Grimaldi (Senta Berger) - Puzzle (1974)

Simona Sanna (Mimsy Farmer) - Autopsy (1975)