Lovecraft Country: A Novel

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 Read more Review At every turn Ruff has great fun pitting mid-20th-century horror and sci-fi cliches against the banal and ever-present bigotry of the era And at every turn it is the bigotry that hums with the greater evil New York Times Book Review Nonstop