A review by directorpurry
Alan Moore's The Courtyard by Alan Moore, Antony Johnston, Jacen Burrows
4.0
CW: gore, drug use, racism, antisemitic slurs, references to N*zis, mental illness comments
This story is closely related to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook" which I previously read and reviewed here!
Dismantling Lovecraft is one of my favorite genres/literary concepts. Generally, I find his writing boring and painfully racist/xenophobic/antisemitic, so it's lots of fun to see non-white and LGBT writers take stabs at him.
In this particular instance, it's not a dismantling so much as a bare-ing. This story hits many of the Lovecraft expectations while upholding the typical disgustingly racist/xenophobic/antisemitic/etc male narrator, but in almost a tongue-in-cheek way. Both the reader and the author are aware of how terrible Aldo Sax is.
And that kind of makes it more fun to watch him get absolutely fucked over.
This story is closely related to H. P. Lovecraft's "The Horror at Red Hook" which I previously read and reviewed here!
Dismantling Lovecraft is one of my favorite genres/literary concepts. Generally, I find his writing boring and painfully racist/xenophobic/antisemitic, so it's lots of fun to see non-white and LGBT writers take stabs at him.
In this particular instance, it's not a dismantling so much as a bare-ing. This story hits many of the Lovecraft expectations while upholding the typical disgustingly racist/xenophobic/antisemitic/etc male narrator, but in almost a tongue-in-cheek way. Both the reader and the author are aware of how terrible Aldo Sax is.
And that kind of makes it more fun to watch him get absolutely fucked over.