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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8241527" data-attributes="member: 4534">I'm not either.&nbsp; It takes research and effort to make an annotated text and that means money spent.&nbsp; The majority Lovecraft compilations are put together on the cheap and they've got not interest in doing anything other than seeing a return on their investment.&nbsp; But in 2014 they did release The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft.&nbsp; I haven't read it so I can't vouch for how good it is.&nbsp; I don't think you'd see that on any annotated version of Lovecraft's work.&nbsp; What purpose would it serve?&nbsp; An annotated version just has notes within it's pages designed to provide the reader with further insight into the author's work.&nbsp; For example, the annotated version of Dracula I had included some exposition of Victorian standards of behavior, definitions for the astounding number of words to describe different types of horse drawn wagons, and an explanation of the god awful dialect Stoker wrote in for an old sailor.A few months after the murder of John Carter, Marcet Haldeman-Julius was in Little Rock to investigate and write an article about the lynching that would be titled &quot;The Story of a Lynching:&nbsp; An Exploration of Southern Psychology&quot; when published in Haldeman-Julius Monthly later that year.&nbsp; Haldeman-Julius recounts that while riding a trolley in Little Rock, she observed two black girls (late teens) standing so she invited them to sit next to her as she had a whole seat to herself.&nbsp; This so incensed another passenger, a white man, that he got up from his seat and starting shouting at Haldeman-Julius at the girls.&nbsp; Haldeman-Julius grew fearful that he might strike her but thankfully he got off at the next stop.&nbsp; But a few stops later she ran into him again as well as the police officer he brought with him and suffered some abuses from him again.&nbsp; I'm not going to argue that Lovecraft was normal.&nbsp; Was he more racist than the average American?&nbsp; Maybe.&nbsp; Was he exceptionally racist when compared to most Americans? No.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8241527, member: 4534"] I'm not either. It takes research and effort to make an annotated text and that means money spent. The majority Lovecraft compilations are put together on the cheap and they've got not interest in doing anything other than seeing a return on their investment. But in 2014 they did release [I]The New Annotated H.P. Lovecraft. [/I]I haven't read it so I can't vouch for how good it is. I don't think you'd see that on any annotated version of Lovecraft's work. What purpose would it serve? An annotated version just has notes within it's pages designed to provide the reader with further insight into the author's work. For example, the annotated version of [I]Dracula[/I] I had included some exposition of Victorian standards of behavior, definitions for the astounding number of words to describe different types of horse drawn wagons, and an explanation of the god awful dialect Stoker wrote in for an old sailor. A few months after the murder of John Carter, Marcet Haldeman-Julius was in Little Rock to investigate and write an article about the lynching that would be titled "The Story of a Lynching: An Exploration of Southern Psychology" when published in [I]Haldeman-Julius Monthly[/I] later that year. Haldeman-Julius recounts that while riding a trolley in Little Rock, she observed two black girls (late teens) standing so she invited them to sit next to her as she had a whole seat to herself. This so incensed another passenger, a white man, that he got up from his seat and starting shouting at Haldeman-Julius at the girls. Haldeman-Julius grew fearful that he might strike her but thankfully he got off at the next stop. But a few stops later she ran into him again as well as the police officer he brought with him and suffered some abuses from him again. I'm not going to argue that Lovecraft was normal. Was he more racist than the average American? Maybe. Was he [U]exceptionally[/U] racist when compared to most Americans? No. [/QUOTE]

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