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.H.P. Lovecraft is considered a father of the modern horror genre and his works considered classics. Unfortunately, he was also, just, ridiculously racist, even by the standards of the time. Because I actually like him as an author in spite of hating him as a human being, I decided to make a list of his stories in pretty much random order with the relevant warnings so people who want to experience these classics without being triggered/taken out of the story/annoyed by his shitty attitudes on pretty much every subject can do so. This list will be updated whenever I feel like it and at completely random intervals.
This first batch is drawn from memory; if I miss something or misremember something, please tell me. Or if the links donât work or link to the wrong thing; I did not check them.
The Lurking Fear
You canât actually be racist against White people, but Lovecraft fucking found a way. No, but in all seriousness though, his attitudes about the âdegenerationâ of rural âsquattersâ dovetails nicely with his other racial âtheoriesâ. I suppose the best way to describe it is as the racial equivalent of âsexism hurts men, too.â That he keeps calling them âsquattersâ is rather interesting, because he doesnât seem to be implying that these people are invading someone elseâs property; rather, I suspect he uses that word because there isnât a White equivalent of âp*rch m*nkeyâ in terms of evocative imagery. If you like The Texas Chainsaw Massacre or Wrong Turn, though, youâll like this story.
Polaris
Racism against Inuits. Rather insidiously, you donât even realize that thatâs whatâs happening until the end. Furthermore, itâs kind of anti-scary, but explaining why takes a bit. See, the narrator dreams of a past life of theirs in which he was part of some antedeluvian arctic civilization (âbefore the coming of the iceâ), at war with invaders from the west called âInutosâ, and then an entity claiming to be the north star puts him to sleep at a critical moment so he canât warn his side of a development and he wakes up in the modern day. Now theoretically a sentient star meddling in human affairs and picking winners in our wars could be scary, except that it picked possibly the least lethal method of interference it could and given the fact that the narrator literally doesnât consider the Inutos to be human and is presumably typical of his civilization in that regard, I can easily believe that itâs helping them out of a sense of benevolence towards humanity. The Cthulhu Mythos is literally less scary for having this story in it, because it means that thereâs a sentient star that can sense and reach across lightyears of space is watching out for us, and if you know anything about how massive and long-lived stars are this becomes one of the most powerful being in the Mythos.
Dagon
Nothing to warn you about that I can recall.
The Outsider
Ditto, though just for the record, I totally saw the twist coming. Even knowing what was coming, though, it was one of the few Lovecraft stories that truly got to me.
The Hound
Also safe, albeit with protagonists itâs hard to root for.
Pickmanâs Model
This oneâs actually scary, though less so when you realize Pickman could just be exploiting a harmless ethnic minority to cast as faerie stand-ins for his personal narrative. We (and the narrator) only have his word for what ghouls are like, and even that only by implication. Technically, the fact that the monsters heâs painting are real is a twist, but come on, thereâs no way you wouldnât have seen that coming a mile away.
The Shunned House
Should also be safe.
The Shadow Over Innsmouth
The Deep Ones interbreeding with humans is clearly meant to be an allegory for miscegenation.
The Shadow Out of Time
Treats aboriginal Australians...well, the way adventure fiction has always treated native guides and laborers. Considering this is Lovecraft weâre talking about, theyâre getting off easy.
At the Mountains of Madness
Good news! This takes place in Antarctica, so thereâs no POC for Lovecraft to badmouth.
...Wait, did I just say âGood news...thereâs no POCâ? Jesus, thatâs the scariest thing on this list. :P
The Colour Out of Space
You know, itâs been such a long time since I read this one that I honestly canât remember, but at worst it mocks rural Whites some more.
The Dunwich Horror
More of this âdegenerationâ nonsense. Also, I got the uncomfortable feeling that Wilbur Whatleyâs âhideousâ features are supposed to look African American. I mean, that couldâve been me reading into it, but I guarentee that now that Iâve said it you wonât be able to see his description as being anything else. (Well, until the end.)
The Doom that Came to Sarnath
Well let me put it this way: if you can stomach a history bookâs description of the Roman Empire or the Spanish conquest of Mexico, you can stomach this. The âheroesâ are genocidal slavers, but the narrative doesnât ask you to get too attached to them. At least I wasnât. Then again, I wasnât scared by the story, either, so it could be that I was doing it wrong.
Itâs entirely possible that âThose bastards had it comingâ wasnât the reaction the author was going for. [/s]
The Mound
by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
Subtler that Lovecraftâs usual racism. An Indian chief talks in broken English, is a font of mystical knowledge, and loans the narrator a unique artifact thatâs been a family heirloom for untold generations--you know, the sort of shit thatâs still happening today. Possible subtler digs I didnât get in various one-off mentions. Kânyan itself might be racist, but I think thatâs just what Lovecraft imagined liberal society would naturally inevitably evolve into.
The Horror in the Museum
I don't know what race Orabona is supposed to be (it just says that he's "dark"), and it's clear he's supposed to come across as a shady bastard (though in a way a generous soul unfamiliar with Lovecraft's body of racism might be tempted to regard as coincidental), but honestly, by the end of the story he comes across as a badass. Because this is the best story yet and I really do recommend reading it, I'm going to actually have a spoiler warning for once. SPOILER: motherfucker singlehandedly kills a Great Old One, successfully covers up both that and his boss's death, and continues to manage a seemingly-successful business after an ordeal that would put most Lovecraft protagonists in the loony bin. Certainly the mere possibility that this creature might be real caused the protagonist of this tale to require serious psychological help.
The Curse of Yig
by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
A prequel of sorts to The Mound. Ascribes worship of Yig to various Native American tribes. (Don't know how racist that is in and of itself, but figured it was better to mention it just to be safe.) Also, and this is a spoiler, a woman gives birth to monsters, which is just straight up uncomfortable, especially when one is aware of Lovecraft's gynophobia.
The Tomb
Nothing to report.
A Reminiscence of Dr Samuel Johnson
No racism or anything like that, but...I just don't get this one.
EDIT: Iâm guessing this is a story fragment.
Beyond the Wall of Sleep
More of this âdegenerationâ nonsense. Like, a lot more. Fucking hell did the man ever hate rednecks.
That being said, probably an important read as it actually explains how this whole seeing things in dreams thing works, and Iâve got the impression that about a third of his stories involve that mechanic.
Memory
No warnings, but extremely short.
The Transition of Juan Romero
Notable in being the first use of an actual slur I recall on Lovecraft's part ("gr*aser"--wait, is that even supposed to refer to Latinxs?), this story is mainly racist against Mexicans with a bit of a splash-on effect onto Native Americans.
The White Ship
Nothing to report.
The Statement of Randolph Carter
Safe.
The Street
Racist. Very, very, very racist. It seems like it's going to be just a little bit racist at first--implying that Anglo-Saxons are the master race and whatnot, which is "a little bit racist" by Lovecraft standards--but then the "swarthy, sinister men" show up (with their anarchist/communist/whatever conspiracy) and everything goes straight to Hell. I did enjoy the bitter irony of Lovecraft leveling the charges of "fear, ignorance, and hate" at these caricatures, however.
The Terrible Old Man
Safe, and fairly decent if conventional.
The Cats of Ulthar
Safe; in fact, I'll bet this one will be many Tumblrites' favorite Lovecraft story.
The Tree
Safe.
Old Bugs
I am, like, 99% sure itâs safe, but the attitudes towards drunks herein very distinctly echo Lovecraftâs thoughts on âdegenerationâ, which as I said fit part and parcel in with his racial theories.
That being said, this story is rather boring, not scary, and predictable.
The Beast in the Cave
Not directly racist; the monster is very similar to the monsters in The Lurking Fear and can be assumed to stem from a similar origin. Basically, it wonât mean anything to you unless youâre familiar with Lovecraftâs greater body of work...which, by this point, you probably are.
Apparently, this is one of Lovecraftâs earliest works and...it shows. Also, itâs very short.
Incidentally, Iâve decided to call Lovecraftâs whole mindset âeugenicismâ; see, itâs racism but itâs not just racism--itâs racism taken to its logical conclusion. For example, say you were to make the argument that Black people are genetically inferior and cite the economic underperformance of majority-Black areas as your evidence for this; Lovecraft would agree with you and then go on to say that all groups in the country that similarly underperform, such as rural Whites, must be similarly genetically inferior.
Phrasing it like this may in a perverse way make him sound better than the average racist--at least heâs logically consistent--but heâs really not. Iâm reminded of those extremist Fire Eaters--a political movement in the Confederacy during that short window of time when the CSA was a thing--who were so gung-ho about slavery that they wanted to enslave poor Whites as well. (And to think, the descendants of those poor Whites want to have statues to these jackasses...but weâre getting way off-topic.)
Nyarlathotep
The mention of "yellow evil faces peering from behind fallen monuments" is almost certainly meant to be racist, but it's vague enough and brief enough that you can pretend it's just another near-human monster.
The Temple
The protagonist's German nationalism and regionalism as well as his ruthless treatment of those of inferior rank (militarily, but likely--and likely more importantly--socially) seem almost a satire of Lovecraft's own attitudes, but given the similar treatment to the Roman soldier in The Very Old Folk I think it far more likely to be simple projection.
Fun fact: turns out Atlantis is real in the Cthulhu Mythos.
And I forgot The Very Old Folk way back when doing the innitial batch, didn't I? Oh, well....
The Very Old Folk
Mentions of Italian blood which result from Lovecraft's projection of his own values onto the protagonist (the Roman Empire was actually very multicultural in nature, of necessity). Also, while this is not racist, the ending is a complete fucking hack job (though I guess that's somewhat mitigated now that I'm aware of the fact that in the Mythos dreams are not just dreams).
The Picture in the House
Herein Lovecraft's eugenicism is more hinted at than seen; an eeevil book out of Darkest Africa(TM) inspires a rural old man (who isn't directly referred to as a degenerate, for once) to almost certainly commit cannibalism.
Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family
Herein Lovecraft's eugenicism is in full force. The story heavily concerns expeditions into Africa, so as you can imagine his treatment of local groups (whom I lay even odds he just made up) is Not Great, but thankfully unfocused on. Posits the existence of an ancient White civilization in the region to explain various ruins, but in a way that can mostly be blamed on the characters' racism if one wants to be generous to the story (we're shown ruins and the characters state that they never could have been made by Black people). The exception being that the "white apes", if you read between the lines, are clearly meant to be the degenerated descendants of this civilization.
The Nameless City
Safe. I certainly hope the protagonist's actions aren't indicative of standard archaeological practices of the time, however.
CelephaĂŻs
Safe.
From Beyond
Safe, and pretty damn good.
The Quest of Iranon
Safe.
Ex Oblivione
Safe.
The Moon-Bog
It's "nice" to know Lovecraft treats Irish servants as poorly as he treats servants of color in his stories.
The Other Gods
Safe.
The Music of Erich Zann
Safe, and recommended.
Hypnos
Safe.
Herbert WestâReanimator
A very vile and ugly-ass description of a "n*gro" (I don't really think I had to censor that, but better safe than sorry), but you can pretend it's the narrator's racism rather than the author's if you wish. The almost comical over-the-topness of the racism in that description honestly makes me wonder if Lovecraft ever actually met a Black person in real life, however.
Azathoth
Safe, but don't get excited; this is a mere novel fragment, and as such doesn't go anywhere or do anything.
What the Moon Brings
Safe.
The Rats in the Walls
The most jarring thing to my mind, mainly because it's what comes up most often, is that the narrator named his cat "N*gger Man". Seriously, any number of scenes that would have been intense are ruined because he mentions his unfortunately named cat and I was snapped out of immersion. The other major racist element is that we're asked to sympathize with an unrepentant slave owner (okay, that may be a little harsh, as he was seven when his family lost their plantation in the Civil War, but he's still unrepentant). Thereâs also a relatively minor incident where the narrator compares the horrible legends about his distant ancestors to one of his cousins running off to be a voodoo priest.
Itâs really a pity, because this is probably his best work yet.
The Unnamable
Safe.
The Festival
Safe.
The Horror at Red Hook
It's hard to say whether this or "The Street" is the most racist Lovecraft work I've read yet.
The Green Meadow
by H. P. Lovecraft and Winifred V. Jackson
Safe.
The Horror at Martinâs Beach
by H. P. Lovecraft and Sonia Greene
Safe.
Under the Pyramids/Imprisoned with the Pharaohs
by H. P. Lovecraft and Harry Houdini
Dubious Egyptology and other low-level offenses; more racist by implication than anything else.
This is the first Lovecraft protagonist we've seen with an actual appreciation for non-European cultures, for which I credit Houdini.
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So the protagonist goes to NYC and is so distraught to find it full of people of color that he follows a necromancer into a haunted house where he sees a future where it's even more full of POC, a fact that makes him literally cry out in horror. Said cry then summons an eldritch abomination of some description that eats the necromancer. The end. Sorry not sorry for spoiling the entire plot.
In The Vault
Safe, a decent story, and somewhat (darkly) humorous.
Cool Air
A person unfamiliar with Lovecraft's nature would see his descripions of certain characters here as Unfortunate Implications at worst. Luckily, itâs non-integral to the story.
The Call of Cthulhu
Evil cults full of "mongrelized" parishioners, blah blah blah. It's...more than the offhanded racism that's in so much of his work, but far closer to that than the full bore racism of Red Hook or The Street. And the cult of Cthulhu itself is pretty much just what conservatives have always pictured the logical conclusion of liberalism to be, having no conception of any form of morality thatâs not based on fear of punishment.
The Strange High House in the Mist
Safe.
The Silver Key
Safe, though I am philosophically offended by Lovecraft's nihilism, which is of the edgy-teen-who-has-just-read-the-cliff-notes-to-Thus-Spoke-Zarathustra variety.
Just once, I'd like to see a fictional protagonist who is confronted with the inevitable ultimate meaninglessness of life, the universe, and everything respond with â...And?
âOh, I'm sorry--was I supposed to be overwhelmed by the realization of the most obvious fucking thing in the universe? So there's no fucking great deity or cosmic force or whatever out there to tell me what the proper way to wipe my ass is--boo hoo. Well, guess what, jackass--if there's no inherent meaning to anything, there's nothing to say whatever meaning you create for yourself based on logic and reason and choice is invalid. Didn't stop to think about that, didja?â
The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath
Slavery happens frequently and is not condemned either by the main character or the narrative; generally as a minor detail of the setting. Said slaves are people of color or animalistic charicatures thereof. A recurring villain is an "evil looking sl*nt-eyed merchant".
The Haunter Of The Dark
Safe.
The Thing On The Doorstep
Casual misogyny. Like, you know that one episode of TOS where Jack the Ripper turns out to have been an alien? Roughly equivalent to that.
The Dreams in the Witch House
Safe.
The Case of Charles Dexter Ward
More of the offhand incidental racism thatâs so common in these works.
The Challenge from Beyond
by way too many authors
Safe.
The Alchemist
One casual mention of "degeneration" at the beginning; otherwise safe.
The Crawling Chaos
Safe. Surprisingly, does not involve Nyarlethotep.
The Whisperer in Darkness
Coupla offhand references to "savages" and the like.
The Book
Safe.
The Descendant
Lovecraft's description of a Jewish bookseller could easily be applied to any sort of "mongrel" or "degenerate" in his work, which is interesting--it appears that while Jews unsurprisingly aren't safe from Lovecraft's racism, they elicit no especial consideration, either.
Also, this appears to be another novel fragment.
The Evil Clergyman
Safe.
The History of the Necronomicon
Safe. Also, not so much a story as a series of notes I presume Lovecraft kept around to keep his own mythos straight.
Ibid
(That link is to a text document because I couldn't find an audio version in English.)
Mentions are made of "half-breeds" and "Aryans", but not elaborated upon and don't appear to have much influence on the plot.
Medusaâs Coil
by H. P. Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop
Oi vey. We begin with some good old fashioned Confederate apologia and end with--and mind you that this revelation is framed in the exact same way that (spoiler for Whisperer in Darkness) Wilmarth finding Akeley's either severed or facsimiled hands and face is--the *horrifying* reveal that Marceline is...part Black. There's other stuff, too, but I honestly didn't read most of this one.
The Tree on the Hill
by H. P. Lovecraft and Duane W. Rimel
Safe.
In the Walls of Eryx
by H. P. Lovecraft and Kenneth J. Sterling
Safe. I do find it somewhat obnoxious, in the context of his greater body of work, that Lovecraft has more sympathy for the made-up nonhuman natives of pulp!Venus than he does for POC of Earth.
The Thing in the Moonlight
by J. Chapman Miske
Safe.
You may have noticed a lack of Lovecraft's name in the attribution. See, Miske wrote this, based on a dream Lovecraft had, and while a lot of the prose looks like Lovecraft's, he's not officially credited for it. So is it really a Lovecraft work? ...Eh, it's in the wikibox, that's good enough for me. Besides, I intend to expand into the Cthulhu Mythos as a whole anyway.
Till Aâthe Seas
by H. P. Lovecraft and R. H. Barlow
Safe enough; one brief mention of "degeneration" that is in no way integral to the plot.
I doubt this one's actually part of the Mythos, as it takes place at the end of a world that had been dominated by humanity for billions of years and there's no mention of sentient cockroaches or spiders anywhere. There is a connection to The Silver Key, however, in that Lovecraft once again turned to the SparkNotes for Thus Spoke Zarathustra for inspiration. (Okay, Iâm being mean: this is, if not a particularly deep examination of certain themes of nihilism, at least a fair presentation of them.)
Also, I again failed to find an audio version and substituted a text document in the link.
The Electric Executioner
by H.P. Lovecraft and Adolphe de Castro
Herein we have "gr*asers" (and at this point I can confirm that this was a slur for Mexicans and from context can confirm it was meant as one by the authors), which are somehow distinct from true Mexicans, and "hill peons," who are Indios who still commit ancient Aztec/Chtulhu Mythos rites.
The Trap
by H.P. Lovecraft and Henry S. Whitehead
The protagonist and narrative casually disregards the plight of slaves; given everything I've said up to this point, this is for the best.
The Man of Stone
by H. P. Lovecraft & Hazel Heald
Safe in the sense of being free of racism and misogyny and that sort of thing, but I must warn you that domestic violence features heavily in the plot.
The Sorcery of Aphlar
by Duane W. Rimel & H. P. Lovecraft
Safe in and of itself, but in the context of Lovecraft's eugenicism there are implications in the city's decline one can't help but notice.
The Night Ocean
by H.P. Lovecraft and R.H. Barlow
Safe.
Bothon
by H.P. Lovecraft and  Henry S. Whitehead
Another âenlightenedâ society in which slavery is common. Further, at least some of the slaves are allegedly quasi-human.
Winged Death
by H.P. Lovecraft and Hazel Heald
The villain protagonist says "n*gger" and performs a mengele-esque expiriment on some native Africans, but on the other hand he is, well, a villain, and never presented as being otherwise.
Further, I do not trust Lovecraft's anthropology. It is not that I doubt that he did his research, indeed I am certain he did, I am just equally certain that he felt he had liscense to alter anything he pleased with free abandon.
(Link is to a text document.)
Two Black Bottles
by H.P. Lovecraft and Wilfred Blanch Talman
Safe.
The Slaying of the Monster
By R. H. Barlow and H. P. Lovecraft
Safe. Also, literally only six paragraphs long. (Link is to text.)
The Secret Cave (or John Lees adventure)
Is it safe? Yes. Is it worth reading? Not really.
I can only imagine that this is a very early rough draft of something Lovecraft wrote when he was ten, that his estate found in his papers after he died, and that, for some unknown reason, they decided to publish.
(Link is to text.)
Poetry and the Gods
by H P Lovecraft & Anna Crofts
Safe. But allow me to complain anyway.
While there's nothing racist per se in the story, in many other ways, this is so him. I mean, there's a distinct running theme in his works that good things are beautiful and bad things are hideous, to the point that many a viewpoint character is literally able to judge a person's moral character within seconds of meeting them, and another theme is that the then-modern world sucks when compared to the past; both these themes come to a head in this story in which the return of the Greek gods, whom if you are unaware are the greatest bunch of sociopaths and narcissists to have ever served as foci for religious thought, is treated as a good thing.
Out of the Aeons
by H P Lovecraft & Hazel Heald
Ascribes worship of various Cthulhu mythos eldritch abominations to POC around the world, natch.
I'm also curious as to how White people from Boston are able to correctly identify Fijians, Samoans, native Hawaiians, and other Polynesian peoples. I guess everyone's an ethnographer in this story....
Okay, seriously though, who the FUCK thinks âitâs (not) naturalâ is a good argument for/against anything, ever?
Know whatâs natural? Cobra venom. Cyanide. Cancer. Black Lung. Smallpox. The boubonic plague. Tapeworms. Those moths that lay their eggs inside of living caterpillars which their larva then eat their way out of like the monster in the Alien movies. HIV (probably).
Know whatâs not natural? Penicillin. Refrigerators. Pacemakers. Eyeglasses. Cars. Planes. Computers. The ISS. Surgery. Pretty much all the food you fucking eat (for a given value of ânaturalâ) (unless you subsist solely on venison).
If youâre wondering why I used the âiâm white tagâ tag on that last post, itâs because Iâm sure that somehow Whiteness is to blame for this bullshit.
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