![]() ![]() A family drama transplanting Lovecraft’s mythology to a Black family in 1950s Chicago, Lovecraft Country is filled to the brim with fascinating ideas: the way the supernatural can enforce or upset historical wrongs the potential for horror as a metaphor for the Black experience defiant reclamation of what was never meant for you, from books to magical powers. Still, some of its parallels are more intentional than others. Like the 2016 novel it’s based on, HBO’s Lovecraft Country is both a tribute to and a subversion of Lovecraft’s work. It would take years after his death in 1937 for Lovecraft’s monsters and aliens to earn respect as real literature, and still more for the author’s legacy to be critically interrogated on account of his open bigotry. Lovecraft toiled in obscurity, part of a wider dismissal of so-called “pulp” as a source of artistic merit. ![]() In his lifetime, the now-massively influential H.P. Martin tend to have a stilted tone that’s easily parodied the shared ethos of fantasy and science fiction puts exposition first and prose second. ![]() ![]() Even massively successful, highly regarded writers like George R.R. It’s par for the course in genre fiction for ideas to outpace execution. ![]()
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