![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Fundamental to this fear was his understanding of atavism - of evolutionary throw-backs, survivals and regressions - in modern industrial society, and his extraordinary stories were only one expression of a contemporary culture involving eugenicists, politiĀcal economists, and prominent authors of the Gothic and 'weird' traditions between the 1890s and the 1930s. Yet in focusing on Cthulhu certain tropes of his work, such as the many memorable monsters he created to populate eugenics his stories, from the infinite effervescence named Yog-Sothoth to the dreaded cephalo-Great Depression pod Cthulhu, scholars have overlooked a deeper terror structuring practically all of his history of economics writings, the chillingly resonant fear that, amidst the chaos of globalization, miscegenation, and economic decline, 'Anglo-Saxon' civilization would surrender to lesser races. Lovecraft remembered for his genre defining style of academic noir pulp fiction. The early twentieth-century weird writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft is today best. ![]()
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