I just finished reading Medusa's Coil by HP Lovecraft and Zealia Bishop, and it may just be the worst thing I've ever read. To the protagonist, the most terrifying thing isn't the fact that there's a medusa, or that her hair is alive, that her portraits come alive and bare their fangs at you, or that her corpse ran out on fire to grab some racist plantation owner, or even that said plantation burned down years ago. No, it's that she's from Africa (to put it non-offensively). How terrible.
@Shalazah Yeah, Lovecraft created a fascinating mythology with his Cthulhu cult, but its built upon a very ugly racist/bigoted foundation.
It's difficult to reconcile my love of that universe with the man and his odious political/social views.