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Extending, Complicating, Challenging (writing, but also about Lovecraft) -…

- - - - turns white people in eldritch horror--the dangers of white spaces for Black men; reverses the Lovecraftian model: "the natural world worried him as much as the white people" (13)
      - Suydam's house as haunted, followed. something in the walls and lurking; the home is always already dangerous?
      - ""every time I was around them, they acted like I was a monster. So I said goddammit, I'll be the worst monster you ever saw" (146-7); Suydam's model of changing the world still reproduces white supremacy; but what does the development of Black Tom as ender of worlds do for systems of power?
      - shows Malone's perspective, which does something;
    - - privileges Blackness and a Black man's experience; the main character also fosters empathy/intimacies
      - "Tommy Tester ended up drawn to performing, the only tragedy being that he lacked talen" (11) makes him relateable?
        
        feels useful to make this feel like 1920s music, Harlem, musician; coopting of Blackness as an aesthetic while marginalizing Black lives
    - - if structural racism limits agentic and autonomous living and erects barriers, comparing this to unspeakable horror as a governing metaphor is a way to
      - It lends itself to how in eldritch horror, you never know where a phenomenon begins and ends. It's all speculation, and glimpses "behind the curtain". It also gives Tommy agency over his own body and life (Joi' in chat)
- - - - introduction of Howard: "You are much darker