Please check out my recent book. I study how H. P. Lovecraft uses his racial hatred creatively by developing racist images and narratives to advocate for his xenophobic, political beliefs! It is an unprecedented phenomenon! bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-r…

Paul Rolland, Lovecraft scholar, writes that Lovecraft's racism invests his work with a "twisted passion." My book will show how passionate and twisted Lovecraft really was. Please check it out! JLS bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-r…

Lovecraft scholar Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock asks: how should we read and teach Lovecraft's racist texts? After reading my book, you should be able to answer that question- though the answer might be difficult. bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-r…

H. P. Lovecraft uses racist images creatively in some of his most popular tales, such as “Arthur Jermyn,” “Herbert West—Reanimator,” and “The Rats in the Walls”! I analyze this extensively in my new book! Please check it out! bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-r…

H. P. Lovecraft, in his hybrid, degenerative monster tales, makes extensive use of the miscegenation narrative! Check out my book for analysis of how he does this in “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”! bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-r…

Richard Lupoff, renowned sf author, writes: “ In H.P. Lovecraft and the Black Magickal Tradition, the revelations may well be as shocking to skeptics as they are reassuring to believers". Please check it out! amazon.com/Lovecraft-Blac… John L. Steadman

It’s Lammas now and there is a feel of autumn in the air. Tonight, the moon was tinted orange. Leo Spitzer makes an interesting observation about Poe's idea of death: "death represents the ultimate abstraction, the zero degree of concrete reality.” What do you make of that?

David Simmons, Lovecraft scholar, writes: Reading Aliens, Robots and Virtual Reality Idols guarantees that you will never look at the writing of Lovecraft, Asimov or Gibson in the same way again.” So please check it out! amazon.com/Virtual-Realit… John L. Steadman

In his later fiction, Lovecraft develops his second racist narrative, the slave master/slave narrative, which he uses to promote the practice of slavery. Check out my book for analysis of how he does this in his great, sf masterpieces. bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-r…

I hope all of you will check out my three books; I study H. P. Lovecraft and his works from three different perspectives, focusing on his extra-terrestrial, terrestrial and trans-dimensional alien entities. bloomsbury.com/us/horror-as-r… amazon.com/Virtual-Realit… amazon.com/Lovecraft-Blac…

It is September, the first month of autumn—my favorite season! John Keats, the English poet, wrote a poem “To Autumn” where he celebrates the season. The last stanza takes us up into the empty skies past the beauty of red, yellow and orange leaves to death and nothingness.

Nathaniel Hawthorne, in "Young Goodman Brown,” describes Brown's attendance at a Witches Sabbath in colonial New England. Brown is traumatized into believing that evil is more powerful than good; that evil is the nature of humankind. Check it out; it's perfect for autumn!

Washington Irving wrote a classic autumn tale, “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow.” Icabod Crane is spirited away to hell by the Headless Horseman and later, people hear his ghost singing at twilight among the “tranquil solitudes." Check out this tale-it's perfect for autumn!

Ray Bradbury warns us against the autumn people, whom he claims are soulless, evil things that ensnare humans. But Bradbury is wrong about that. For there are autumn people who have souls and are not evil; they celebrate the death of the year and the renewal that follows.

Ray Bradbury in The Halloween Tree describes Halloween in words filled with death: cold wind, velvet cerements, funeral plumes. But Halloween is not about death. The candle burning in the jack o’ lantern celebrates life and the everlasting life to come after death.

H. P. Lovecraft, in his poem “October,” speaks of the "farther lands." But he didn't really believe in them. I do, however—lands of beauty and promise where we can, if we have enough love, hope and faith, make all of our dreams come true.

Edgar Allan Poe, in his poem “Ulalume,” pictures the narrator journeying through a dark forest at midnight. He ends up at the tomb of his beloved, the Lady Ulalume, tricked by the woodland ghouls into a confrontation with Death. This is the ultimate Halloween trick or treat!

On the last week of October, let's sum up what we have learned during the past month. Halloween is not about death; the candles in the jack o' lantern symbolize life. And so, as the harvest ends, leave sadness and emptiness behind and move forward into the future

Happy Halloween, Everyone!

Now, it is November, the last of the autumn months. It is time to read the great writers of late autumn and winter: H. P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe. In both visionary writers, there is a fear and a terror of cosmic will and of the predicaments of the soul.