HP Lovecraft is the subject of continued fascination among scholars, readers and cultists in every part of the world where horror matters and sanity is a minor irritant. In many respects, he remains an enigma, the focus of constant speculation. The Cthulhu Mythos will always find willing contributors.

The common view of HP Lovecraft's philosophy is that he was nihilistic, within one of the many disputed meanings of the term or, at the very least, that he viewed the universe as essentially hostile to life and reason. A careful interpretation of the subtext of his seminal story The Call of Cthulhu¹ reveals that the tale of dread horror was a libertarian manifesto- a satire on the monstrousness of the state. As I will demonstrate, Lovecraft's belief in individual rights and freedom was intimately linked to his loathing for miscegenation and his racist worldview.

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