H.P. Lovecraft’s influence on horror, science fiction, and fantasy looms large, but when you read his work today it’s difficult to ignore the racism and xenophobia that plagues his stories.
This panel celebrates and interrogates the marred, mutating legacy of Lovecraft, touching on the ways his work has gone on to affect today’s writers, as well as exploring the imperative question of how to navigate and unpack harmful views of those who have influenced and changed genres irreversibly.
Speakers include writer and journalist David Barnett, comic artist, writer and animator INJ Culbard, author and game designer Jonathan L. Howard and founder of the London Lovecraft Festival TL Wiswell.