KNOW ABOUT HP LOVECRAFT CAT NAME AND RELATED FACTS

 Who was H.P Lovecraft?

H.P Lovecraft was an American writer who was alive from 1890 to 1937. He was known to write in domains like science, fantasy, weird and horror fiction. His pen name was Grandpa Theobald. He was known to be  racist man which his writings used to clearly indicate. His one of the best creations was Cthulhu Mythos and he is best known for this. Lovecraft today is known as one of the most notable authors of the 20th Century for Supernatural Horror Fiction.  

What was hp lovecraft cat name?

Basically hp lovercraft cat name indicates the cat named ‘Nigger-man’. This cat was owned by the H.P Lovecraft family when he was a child. His family had number of cats out of which this was the oldest one that’s name Nigger man. Family named her in 1899 when H.P Lovecraft was 9 years old. Everyone doubts if the cat name is given by H.P lovecraft as he was known to be a racist man and since the nature of cat’s name is also such but because he was only 9 years old then, it was given by his family and friends. H.P lovecraft owned the cat himself when he was 14 years old. The cat then went missing in 1904. H.P Lovecraft later gave tribute to his cat by giving his cat name to a cat in the short story ‘The Rats in the Wall’ in 1923. Though the name of the cat in the story later changed to ‘Blackie’ or ‘Blck tom’ in some of the reprints of the story. Lovecraft never owned any other animal but with his friends he did name many stray animals. 

Why does hp lovecraft cat name have a racial slur in it?

During the 19th, 20th and late 20th Century, most Americans were believed to be racist. Naming animals and pets with words that are racial slur was a trendy and cool thing to do. Following the trend, the white people even started to name mountains, plants, names of teams and other things by using racial slurs. So, the very obvious answer to why hp lovecraft cat name was a racial slur is that H.P Lovecraft was a racist himself and so does his family who originally named the cat ‘Nugger’ man. And thus, even the name of the cat must have been very usual and not so creative for the relatives and the neighbours.

Memes on hp lovecraft cat name

On June 12th 2018, sandinlungs-blogs posted a picture of Lovecraft holding his cat. Under this picture, a tumblr user named greatpostsonline commented “lovecraft and his cat n-.....nnnn-....ummm… his cat’s name was uhhh….This is a picture of H.P Lovecraft with his cat”, after which on the same day, another user named robloxgf replied “what was his name” and later wrote “oh no” under his first comment. This conversation between these two received huge no. of likes and reblogs within a few years. 

Later on June 18th 2018, one of ‘ Know Your Meme’ user ‘Cold Hard Crash’ uploaded ss of this post which got lakhs of views in just 2 years. Later on, a Redditor, ‘AnchientHistiory’ did a post that contained some extensive information about Lovecraft’s cat and its role in his life. And so because of this viral post, it led to the making of memes about Lovecraft and his cat. Even the memes got more popular when in 2019, ‘Don’t Google’ about the cat memes went viral online. And thus, hp lovecraft cat name became one of the most searched keywords on Google.