Actually, the closest direct exposure I've had to Rohmer's creation is the anonymized antagonist of the first Extraordinary League of Gentlemen story arc. But I would imagine that the originals are probably still interesting to read with a firm mental grounding in their contemporary social context.
OTOH, I enjoy Kentucky Fried Movie.
Lovecraft himself was (perhaps unsurprisingly) violently senophobic, which comes out in all sorts of different ways in his writing-- not just the fecund nativist nightmare of "Shub Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young", but casual dismissals of non-WASPs as degenerate lesser breeds with unhealthy vigor and the narrator of "The Rats in the Walls" lightheartedly naming his favorit black cat "Nigger-Man" (ouch).
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on 2007-08-26 10:26 pm (UTC)OTOH, I enjoy Kentucky Fried Movie.
Lovecraft himself was (perhaps unsurprisingly) violently senophobic, which comes out in all sorts of different ways in his writing-- not just the fecund nativist nightmare of "Shub Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young", but casual dismissals of non-WASPs as degenerate lesser breeds with unhealthy vigor and the narrator of "The Rats in the Walls" lightheartedly naming his favorit black cat "Nigger-Man" (ouch).