Miscigenação, racismo e fim do mundo na literatura fantástica de H.P. Lovecraft (Estados Unidos, 1920)

Abstract

Call of Cthulhu is a tale published by the American writer Howard Philips Lovecraft in 1928, which became a symbol of what would become horror in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This author’s reverberation time has become very symbolic for some prodigious names today, like Neil Gaiman and Guillermo Del Toro. However, Lovecraft writes his tales using an expressive racism and virulent xenophobia, and sometimes he is not remembered for doing it. In the monograph we look to analyze how is this racism discussed by some of Lovecraft’s followers and biographers. Then we are going to analyze the tale Horror in Red Hook, which we comprehend how Lovecraft’s hate to oriental people in this tale transforms in a key element to the creation of an atmospheric horror.