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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8499257" data-attributes="member: 18">What do you mean by that though? The TV series? The book?The book probably will. The TV series probably won't because it's a bit of a hot mess. However, if people go looking for Lovecraft, they're very likely to encounter it, and it's what, probably the only TV series which actively is about the Cthulhu Mythos?So I would suggest that a young person, ten or twenty years from now, is quite likely to learn about Lovecraft Country and watch the TV show, and whilst they might not think it's a masterpiece, it is still going to potentially point up the issues with Lovecraft rather handily.Also the book is solid and likely to continue to be well-regarded. Further, it's not alone. It's part of a broader reckoning with Lovecraft's work, and that reckoning and reclamation is happening because, fundamentally, Lovecraft's stuff was interesting, original, and influential, but also incredibly problematic, yet he's more tragic the villainous. There's a whole body of modernized Mythos stuff, a lot of it by minority authors of all descriptions, whether it's Ruthanna Emrys, Cassandra Khaw, Premee Mohammed, or whoever. Not all of it is going to stand the test of time, as with any other non-Lovecraft Mythos writers. But some of it will, and even if it only stands it for a decade or two, it's going to change how people see Mythos stuff - indeed I'd argue it's already largely happened. No-one under 45 talks about Lovecraft without acknowledging his racism - few older people do even.</blockquote>

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