[Murony_Pyre]

Quote Originally Posted by hopfrog

We chatted of this at S. T.'s cook-out this past Sunday, where I defended China, a writer I keenly admire. We are all getting rather weary of people attacking Lovecraft for his racism. Ugly as it is (I speak as one of Jewish heritage), HPL's racism is eclipsed by everything that was admirable about him. The attacks calling Lovecraft a hack and a bad writer are too absurd, and I have been stupid enough to comment on them in various blogs, a behavior I nigh try to stop. Lovecraft doesn't need his obsess'd fanboy defending him, and no one takes me seriously so it doesn't help. Instead, I've been discussing why I so admire his work on my own blog, and continue writing book after book that pays aesthetic homage to Lovecraft's weird fiction. Just got a new book deal with Hippocampus Press this week and will spend ye rest of this year writing ye new material for that as yet unnameable tome.

I think everyone takes you, quite seriously, Wm! I do anyway--it's the only sensible thing.