Niggerman
The name of the protagonist Delapore's cat in prolific (and very dead) horror writer H.P.
Lovecraft's short story "The Rats in the Walls". In a 1953 re-release of the story, the cat's name was changed to Black Tom.
Spoiler alert: The house is swarming with spectral rats (
lovecraft be trippin') and Nigger Man is the only person able to sense them.
Now, any well adjusted member of society might think to oneself; why in the
everloving fuck would any writer name a character, even a cat, Niggerman? The nature of the naming is never even explained.
Lovecraft himself, however, actually had a cat named Nigger Man.
"Did you
feed Niggerman
yet?"
#horror#lovecraft#cthulhu#racism#cat
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problemo de drinko June 30, 2019
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