![]() ![]() The three Black, female monster hunters roam 1920s Georgia in a quest to combat the allied forces of racism and cosmic horrors from beyond our world. Ring Shout is the story of Maryse – wielder of a magic sword – and her compatriots Sadie the sharpshooter and Chef the explosives expert. Jemisin in taking the qualities that draw readers to Lovecraft nearly a century after his death – the mythos, the otherworldly horror – and using the master’s tricks against his racist ideology. Djèlí Clark joins the ranks of writers like Victor LaValle, Kij Johnson and N.K. Consequently, the best writers taking up Lovecraft’s mode these days are those who turn his fiction in on itself, finding the solution within the problem. Less an aspect that makes Lovecraft’s writing “problematic” than the problematic that makes Lovecraft’s writing, his hatred of anyone ethnically outside of the Anglo, blue-blood niche is present to a greater or lesser degree in nearly every one of his works. ![]() Concurrent with the recent surge in Lovecraftian fiction is an acknowledgement of the hysterical xenophobia that fueled his oeuvre. His worlds and monsters have always had a cult following, subject to appropriation and reinterpretation by countless authors since his death. Lovecraft has, in the last ten years, become more famous and successful than he ever was in life. ![]()
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