![]() ![]() ![]() I’m more interested in keeping the present 300-year-old culture-germ in America unharmed, than in trying out any experiments in “social justice” … Some people may like the idea of a mongrel America like the late Roman Empire, but I for one prefer to die in the same America that I was born in. Lovecraft makes his assessment of Smith’s politics clear in a letter to his publisher, August Derleth: In 1928, Al Smith, a descendant of Irish Catholic and Italian immigrants, challenged Herbert Hoover for the presidency. Lovecraft, however, employs the same breathless prose to describe the immigrants of the Lower East Side as he does the amoeba-like Shoggoths of At the Mountains of Madness.Ī horror of anything not masculine, blue-eyed and heterosexual can be seen throughout Lovecraft’s personal letters, in which he complains about immigration in terms that make Alex Jones seem nuanced by comparison. They-or the degenerate gelatinous fermentations of which they were composed-seem’d to ooze, seep and trickle thro’ the gaping cracks in the horrible houses … and I thought of some avenue of Cyclopean and unwholesome vats, crammed to the vomiting point with gangrenous vileness, and about to burst and inundate the world in one leprous cataclysm of semi-fluid rottenness.Īre these Martians? Moon men? Fungi from planet Yuggoth? Hardly. They were monstrous and nebulous adumbrations of the pithecanthropoid and amoebal vaguely moulded from some stinking viscous slime of earth’s corruption, and slithering and oozing in and on the filthy streets or in and out of windows and doorways in a fashion suggestive of nothing but infesting worms or deep-sea unnamabilities. ![]() The organic things … inhabiting that awful cesspool could not by any stretch of the imagination be call’d human. Take for example this description of a city overrun by aliens: Lovecraft is known for his baroque descriptions of creatures that are not merely horrifying but actually beyond comprehension. ![]()
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