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I guess this is on par with other of King's works, but Richards here is an unsympathetic asshole. Classism, I can get behind, particularly given the over-the-top dystopia of it all. But the racism and sexism here is just nasty.

Lol. I love The Yellow Wallpaper. It's horrifying, but also hilarious. "Now why should that man have fainted? But he did, and right across my path by
the wall, so that I had to creep over him every time!"

Creep, creep, creep!

The fact that Lovecraft thinks Charlotte Perkins Gilman's The Yellow Wallpaper is a ghost story -- or that it's scary because of some kind of supernatural transference of madness -- says a lot about him and his take on what's horrifying. To be clear: The Yellow Wallpaper is story about how men treat women. Nothing's supernatural, and her madness has very mundane origins...which is all the more terrifying.

Stories like The Jaunt just aren't that scary to me, because if a technology like this actually existed, there would be regulations such that what happens in this story just... wouldn't happen. This is only scary if you believe basic industry safety regulations aren't possible. Or, like, basic advances in anesthesiology. It's such a strange 80s mentality to think that nothing can be done about simple problems.