Lovecraft and his peers “created the shared mythology at a time when modern horror and science fiction were coming into being and it got passed down into the DNA of the genre,” says Matt Ruff, author of “Lovecraft Country.” “Lovecraft was the ultimate meme generator.”Įven Lovecraft’s most committed apologists have struggled to defend “The Horror at Red Hook,” a short story about an Irish detective investigating a sinister devil-worshiping cult of immigrants on the Brooklyn waterfront in which he uses explicitly racist language. the Book of the Dead, a fictional book of magic. Other Lovecraftian tropes include the Necronomicon, a.k.a. The best-known of these creatures is Cthulhu, a many-tentacled, bat-winged octopus-dragon hybrid that has inspired countless other horror-movie monsters. He was affiliated with a group of writers known as the Lovecraft Circle, who freely borrowed imagery from his work and helped establish the system of lore called the Cthulhu Mythos, a fantastical shared universe of alien deities. “What he came to believe, I think deeply and honestly, was that human beings were insignificant little dust motes in this enormous universe and that eventually we would discover that we were not particularly significant.” “He was beginning to write at a time when science was making vast and profound discoveries,” says Klinger. The drama is primarily set in the North - a region that was technically integrated but where discriminatory housing policies, sundown laws and the specter of violent intimidation meant that de facto segregation was widespread - and like “Get Out,” uses horror to confront deeply rooted bias in all corners of American society. Vance), childhood friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) and other family members as they encounter monstrous racists - as well as literal monsters - in the early civil rights era. This tension is at the heart of “Lovecraft Country,” which follows Tic, his Uncle George (Courtney B. You just try to cherish them, overlook their flaws.” “Loving them doesn’t mean they’re perfect. “Stories are like people,” says Tic, who is on his way home to Chicago.
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In the new HBO series “Lovecraft Country,” a young Black Korean War veteran named Atticus “Tic” Freeman (Jonathan Majors) explains why he loves the sci-fi novel “Princess of Mars” even though its protagonist is a Confederate soldier.
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