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Oh my god, is that a new icon?

EDIT: OK but more to the point, I'm glad someone's actually putting out a critical edition, because S.T. Joshi, while dedicated and brilliant and knowledgeable, was anything but objective in his approach. It's nice that someone's actually addressing the racism, for once.

Has anyone ever talked about the near-pathological sexism, either? It's not as bad as with some authors because it shows in a complete absence of female characters, but I think I've read all of Lovecraft's non-ghost-writing output by now and I don't remember a single female character that actually, you know, does anything. The one in "The Thing on the Doorstep" is revealed to not really be female after all, at least spiritually and mentally. That seems weird even by pulp standards.