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Review: Hated it.

Well, actually, I enjoyed it at the beginning and middle of the story, and found the story fairly riveting when it looked like Marceline was simply a Gorgon or perhaps a type of Succubus. And the descriptions of her hair were very well written. And when she "comes back" - that was pretty creepy.

But the ending just killed the whole story. For Lovecraft, the horror was not so much that Marceline was an undead gorgon, but that she was of African descent. Wow, Mr. Lovecraft, way to flush my enjoyment of that story right down the toilet.

This is almost as bad as the brutally racist description of the boxer in "Herbert West: Re-Animator" where he tries to invoke fear by mentioning the "drums of the Congo".

You know, I like the Macabre style of his writings, and the atmosphere, but honestly, Lovecraft's overt, blatant, and ridiculous racism really wrecks it for me.

Despite not having read other "classics" like the "Call of Cthulhu" yet, I think I'm selling this book to a reseller this weekend.

Lovecraft was a racist.

Off topic: Mark Twain wasn't. Get past the N-Word and Huckleberry Finn is a story about how stupid racism is.

I guess I'll ask the 'dot: Is there an author who is similar to Lovecraft in style that I should check out? Don't say Poe, I've already read the entirety of Poe's works.