Lovecraft Country

Matt Ruff

Lovecraft Country
Format
Paperback
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Country
United States
Published
14 February 2017
Pages
400
ISBN
9780062292070

Lovecraft Country

Matt Ruff

Now an HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele (Director of Get Out)

The critically acclaimed cult novelist makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects in this brilliant and wondrous work of the imagination that melds historical fiction, pulp noir, and Lovecraftian horror and fantasy.

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George–publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide–and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite–heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors–they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn–led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb–which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his–and the whole Turner clan’s–destruction.

A chimerical blend of magic, power, hope, and freedom that stretches across time, touching diverse members of two black families, Lovecraft Country is a devastating kaleidoscopic portrait of racism–the terrifying specter that continues to haunt us today.

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