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Indlæser... Skull-Face Omnibus Volume 1: Skull-Face and Others (1946)af Robert E. Howard
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I found the worst story in the collection (and in my recent reading) to be "Black Canaan", set in the US deep South, it is a white supremacist wet dream which I couldn't finish.
The other stories in the collection fit the common apologism for pulp fiction works of this era: that they simply reflect the commonly held views of the time and place in which they were written. Accordingly, these other stories have racism as incidental or secondary features of the narrative, rather than being the central theme. It is possible for me to read around the racism in those stories to appreciate the weird horror elements that I'm actually interested in, but they are still a distraction.
Re-reading this book after several decades of life experience is an interesting and instructive exercise, and one which leads me to a reevaluation of Howard as a writer, and as a promoter of conservative libertarian, and white supremacist, ideas. That I've downgraded my rating by only one star is due to a nostalgic sentimentality for the undoubted escapist pleasure Howard's stories gave me as a youth, despite their ideological underpinnings. ( )