![]() You’ve probably heard about the Salem man that came home with a Chinese wife, and maybe you know there’s still a bunch of Fiji Islanders somewhere around Cape Cod.” I s’pose you know-though I can see you’re a Westerner by your talk-what a lot our New England ships used to have to do with queer ports in Africa, Asia, the South Seas, and everywhere else, and what queer kinds of people they sometimes brought back with ’em. I hate those Innsmouth folks myself, and I wouldn’t care to go to their town. “But the real thing behind the way folks feel is simply race prejudice-and I don’t say I’m blaming those that hold it. The whole thing is clearly a metaphor for Lovecraft’s disgust at interracial relationships – a disgust that can’t even be considered subtext, given how it’s made literal text: It’s about some people in a small town in America who start breeding with fish-people and end up worshipping the Old Ones, as so often happens. ![]() Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a story about the horrors of interracial breeding.
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