The August edition of the Fortean Times contains a great article by James Holloway on Lovecraft and archaeology, importantly touching upon the politics of archaeology and history in relation to how those disciplines have often shored-up notions of racial, cultural and national identity: issues not only of central concern to Lovecraft, but which also toxically underpin many modern forms of occult- and conspiracy-inflected revisionist history and pseudo-archaeology - and which, more widely, continue to inform expressions of ethno-nationalistic chauvenism and supremacy in the contemporary, post-colonial world.
On a lighter note, James also hosts Monster Man, an excellent weekly podcast surveying classic D&D bestiaries (I’m hoping that when he’s done with D&D, he’ll move on to Runequest and Call of Cthulhu). Monster Man can be found on iTunes and here, you can support James’ podcast here, and you can find his Gonzo History blogs - both standard and gaming editions - here and here. If that wasn’t enough, you can also purchase a Kindle edition of James’ Lovecraftian historical novel of vikings encountering the Cthulhu mythos, The Barest Branch, for only two of your finest British pounds from Amazon.
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