Newspaper Rock: Lovecraft and Natives

A well thought parcel of commentary on H.P. Lovecraft sprang up earlier this month over at the "Newspaper Rock" blog by Rob Schmidt, a blog focusing on portrayals of American Indians in popular culture. "Natives in H.P. Lovecraft" explores the intersection of native peoples and HPL's dark gods from several different angles. Lovecraft's fictional use of natives as related to a collision of real world mythology with the Cthulhu mythos is discussed, as well as portrayals of natives as allies of supernatural chaos arrayed against civilization. As with most articles discussing Lovecraft and ethnicity, this content is mildly controversial, and it may provoke a feistier debate in the comments over time.

-Grim Blogger