Hughes’s snarky poems pillorying H. P. and his followers are aptly subtitled. Some of his pretty ditties are so monstrously bad that the response is the groan invoked by a pun while some are right on laugh out loud skewers into the racist verbiage that mars much of Lovecraft’s work. Indeed, facing the title page of this print on demand publication the author has placed this dedication:

“This collection is dedicated to every reader who loves Weird fiction but doesn’t take it too seriously. It is also dedicated to everyone who opposes fascism of any variety.”

And it’s not only Lovecraft’s social and political opinions that are mocked in verse. The cover illustration is but one instance of Hughes’s humor. There are several snide takes in verse on Lovecraft’s chin at the bottom of the long face he inherited from his English ancestors. ( )