Racism and the Far Right in British Horror

[Hidden X]

Fascinating trilogy of articles that I've seen posted on reddit.
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/201...tish-horror-1/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/201...rror-part-two/
http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/201...or-part-three/

[Evans]

May I respectfully add that Robert Aickman, by no means an evil or uncompassionate man, at some point in his life nursed a sympathy at least for Fascist individuals if not for Fascism in general.

I recall how a certain welknown horror writer who, in an attempt to score a point against Riley, ended up letting slip about Aickman's interest in Mosley .

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Good articles.

Aickman sounded pretty uncompassionate in the Tartarus documentary, the way his friend described him.

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Attack of the Six-Foot Tranny Starring Doris V. Sutherland

Dammit, her blog has too many interesting articles!

[Robert Adam Gilmour]

Horror Puppies Redux: Is Souldancer Really Horror Fandom Attack of the Six-Foot Tranny

Brian Niemeier: The Man Who Would Be (Stephen) King Attack of the Six-Foot Tranny

This is pretty funny.

[Shadenuat]

Quote Originally Posted by Robert Adam Gilmour

Good articles. Aickman sounded pretty uncompassionate in the Tartarus documentary, the way his friend described him.

Yeah, he wasn't exactly pleasant piece of work.
I knew nothing of his personal politics and attitudes back when I started reading his fiction, and I'm happy that it was that way. I really couldn't detect anything overtly ideological about his stories one way or another.
If it was other way around I probably couldn't help but project some of it into them, human mind being what it is.

[durandal]

Quote Originally Posted by Robert Adam Gilmour

Horror Puppies Redux: Is Souldancer Really Horror Fandom Attack of the Six-Foot Tranny Brian Niemeier: The Man Who Would Be (Stephen) King Attack of the Six-Foot Tranny This is pretty funny.

That Niemeier sounds like a lunatic, thinks his trash is superior to Gustav Meyrink.

Horror and weird fiction community has been blissfully free of right wing tards who have been causing havoc in SFF land, and I hope that we will keep it that way in the future.

[Hidden X]

Quote Originally Posted by Evans

May I respectfully add that Robert Aickman, by no means an evil or uncompassionate man, at some point in his life nursed a sympathy at least for Fascist individuals if not for Fascism in general. I recall how a certain welknown horror writer who, in an attempt to score a point against Riley, ended up letting slip about Aickman's interest in Mosley .

Meh. You won't find one author in say Aickman's Heirs who isn't very much on the left. I'd also wager that majority of them is quite aware that man's views were removed from their own.

His fiction isn't as openly infused with his beliefs as, for example, Lovecraft's sometimes was. And so, you won't see people complaining about it. That's all there is to it.

[Evans]

Quote Originally Posted by Hidden X

Meh. You won't find one author in say Aickman's Heirs who isn't very much on the left. I'd also wager that majority of them is quite aware that man's views were removed from their own.

Okay... No one ever implied liking/admiring an author with distasteful views meant that the person themselves endorsed those views. I cast no aspersions over the views of those who contributed to Aickman's Heirs or have otherwise written about the man.

Quote Originally Posted by Hidden X

His fiction isn't as openly infused with his beliefs as, for example, Lovecraft's sometimes was. And so, you won't see people complaining about it. That's all there is to it.

I would contest that, especially for stories like 'Growing Boys', as crude an anti-liberal polemic as 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' is a polemic against mixxed race marriage. The difference is Aickman was at one point quite 'trendy' in an anti-Lovecraft type way, so people who liked him for that aspect were keen to avoid or downplay what they might have otherwise commented on had it appeared in the work of a more 'traditional' writer e.g. M.R. James or someone like that.

People falsely attribute social liberalism to Aickman because he's seen as an 'outside the box writer', and the left have seen fit to consider all such thinking to be leftist thinking. A similar appropriation occurred with David Lynch, who openly admires Ronald Reagan.