The problem is that Lovecraft was a deeply racist and xenophobic man.
(The biannual convention takes place around his birthday he was born on Aug. 18-21 in Providence, R.I., for the first time since 2019, is named after Lovecraft’s hometown and another of his literary inventions - a grimoire so dangerous that those who read it meet ghastly ends. “But the malignant forces of misplaced morality have regrouped from the backlash that stopped them in the ’80s, and the re-lash is in full swing.”Īnd so it went, with delicious jabs at incel culture (of which, one might argue, Lovecraft was a proto-member) and plutocrats. “I must confess myself among those who always trusted that a coven of sexless black-robed liches would change the world for the better,” said Goodfellow, who had flown in from the netherworld known as San Diego, Calif. To the delighted worshipers, Cody Goodfellow, here a Most Exalted Hierophant, delivered a sermon that started with growled mentions of “doom-engines, black and red,” “great hammers of the scouring” and so on. Named after the cosmically malevolent and abundantly tentacled entity dreamed up by Howard Phillips Lovecraft, the event, among the most popular at NecronomiCon Providence 2022, filled a vast hotel ballroom at 8 a.m. There’s bacon and eggs, and then there’s bacon and eggs at the Cthulhu Prayer Breakfast.
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