In Person/Hybrid Lecture "H.P. Lovecraft" Dr. James Rietveld- Thurs Oct. 21

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Join us for a discussion of HP Lovecraft, American writer of enormous influence on science fantasy, supernatural horror fiction's evolution

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Join us for a discussion of Howard Phillips (H.P.) Lovecraft, an American writer with enormous influence on the evolution of weird tales, science fantasy, the supernatural and horror fiction.In Person/hybrid Zoom Lecture with Dr. James Rietveld on October 21, 8, p.m.Virtual Attendees Pay What You Wish Donation: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/179322928707Location: Ipso Facto 517 N. Harbor Bl. Fullerton, CA 92832Why is the atmosphere that Lovecraft creates in his fiction so effective at eliciting horror and cosmic fear, particularly of "the other," "the known and the unknown?" Scholars have argued that the dread and superstitious terror (even madness) that Lovecraft's stories elicit is seated in ancient, evolved mechanisms in human nature, primal fears hardwired in the human brain.For example, Lovecraft is expert at weaving the relationship between smell and fear, and the connection between fear, eyes and threat assessmentHis stories also make use of superstition, delusions, trauma, nightmares and the implicit dread of the sanity of a sane character being challenged.Lovecraft famously created the Cult of Cthulhu and the "Deep Ones" and across several tales, envisioned an entire universe of supernatural forces with far reaching cultic influence. Inspired by the supernatural elements, rich with vivid imagery and descriptions of sensory details, in "The Call of Cthulhu" and "The Shadow Over Innsmouth," other horror writers of the day: Robert Block, Robert E. Howard, and Clark Ashton Smith, worked in references to Cthulhu into their own writings.A prolific letter writer, we can examine how Lovecraft's controversial, often xenophobic world views on race, spirituality and politics changed radically over his lifetime.In his youth, his became an avid astronomer, which afforded a great shift in his world view that he later described poignantly, his observations giving rise to his view of humanity's impermanence. Initially opposed to democracy, supporting instead aristocratic rule and government by the affluent, his family's loss of wealth drove him to the brink of suicide, and he eventually embraced socialism during the Depression.Having married a Jewish woman, Sonia Greene, in 1924, Lovecraft's initial support of Hitler waned as he learned the horrors to which Germany's Jewish population were subjected. His initial arguments for a strong color line to preserve race and culture, gave way to an embrace of all those "self-ennobled of high culture. " However, this insular and deeply disturbed man never completely divorced himself from the racial bigotry and Xenophobia that was common in New the England society of his time.Join us for a journey into the mouth of madness, whose hideous truth we will illuminate from the darkness of Lovecraft’s world!

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