David Goodwin, ’00, is the author of “Midnight Rambles: H. P. Lovecraft in Gotham,” a micro-biography of horror fiction’s most influential author and his love–hate relationship with New York City.
By the end of his life and near financial ruin, pulp horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft resigned himself to the likelihood that his writing would be forgotten. Today, Lovecraft stands alongside J.R.R. Tolkien as the most influential genre writer of the 20th century. His reputation as an unreformed racist and bigot, however, leaves readers to grapple with his legacy. “Midnight Rambles” explores Lovecraft’s time in New York City, a crucial yet often overlooked chapter in his life that shaped his literary career and the inextricable racism in his work.
Goodwin is the assistant director of the Center on Religion and Culture at Fordham University.
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