The Shadow over Innsmouth
by H.P. Lovecraft
Reading this as prep for [a:Ruthanna Emrys|8154083|Ruthanna Emrys|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1464921954p2/8154083.jpg]' book [b:Winter Tide|30078601|Winter Tide (The Innsmouth Legacy, #1)|Ruthanna Emrys|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1464620356s/30078601.jpg|47306624], since I've heard great things but haven't ever read Lovecraft. Luckily for me, not a fan of horror, there isn't anything that gross or scary if you don't find the idea of being among or seeing non-white/disabled people intrinsically horrifying. It says a lot about 1936, though....
Update a few days later: And then I read this New Yorker interview with author [a:Sunaura Taylor|5343656|Sunaura Taylor|https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/user/u_50x66-632230dc9882b4352d753eedf9396530.png] about the connections between disability and animal rights and her book [b:Beasts of Burden: Animal and Disability Liberation|34612908|Beasts of Burden Animal and Disability Liberation|Sunaura Taylor|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1489753965s/34612908.jpg|44312882]. (I haven't read the book yet.) The narrator spends a lot of words trying to decide whether the Innsmouth residents are mixed-race or disabled, and the true answer is