This followed a long campaign by fantasy authors, famously including Nnedi Okorafor, who, after winning the award, wrote about how conflicted she was about it: ‘A statuette of this racist man’s head is in my home. So much so that in 2015 the World Fantasy Awards stopped using an image of Lovecraft as its award statue. But it is also now widely acknowledged that Lovecraft’s work was informed by his own white supremacist, racist and anti-Semitic attitudes. Prolific during the pulp era, Lovecraft has been incredibly influential in the development of modern fantasy, horror and science fiction. The fantasy and science fiction world has a bit of a love-hate relationship with the works of HP Lovecraft.
Matt Ruff’s fiction explores the reality of writer HP Lovecraft’s world, where the real demons might be your neighbours rather than supernatural forces. Tags: America in the 1950s/ horror/ HP Lovecraft/ Lovecraft Country/ Matt Ruff/ racism/ SF
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