Status Updates From The Night Ocean

...talking about Lady Chatterley’s Lover. They were making fun of the sex, the twining of flowers in Lady Chatterley’s pubic hair and so on, and Pat said, louder than he meant to, For sure, that was scarier than anything in Weird Tales!

H. P. Lovecraft was a homosexual. There were no female characters in his stories—or almost none! His creatures had long, slimy tentacles! Also, Lovecraft frequently used the words nameless and unspeakable: What was that, if not a sly reference to the love that dared not speak its name?

When Lovecraft moved to the city, he and Long became inseparable; they ate together, argued politics, shopped for books, took long walks at night—and all the while, the Erotonomicon revealed, Lovecraft longed for Long.

But this isn’t the story of our marriage. It’s not the story of how quickly Charlie moved in with me and stood Han Solo and Darth Vader on my bookshelf, in front of D. W. Winnicott and George Eliot.