According to the novel's synopsis, the book "makes visceral the terrors of life in Jim Crow America and its lingering effects" by combining two sets of terrors.įirst, the very real fear that Black people felt in the 1950s in white neighborhoods where any interaction with a white person that goes slightly awry could be their last. Lovecraft Country, both the book and the HBO series, mines similar ground. Many horror movies have mined America's racist history for subtext or text, from George Romero's Night of the Living Dead (in which a Black man survives hordes of the undead, but is shot to death by a white man once the attack has ended) to Jordan Peele's recent films like Get Out and Us. That could change, however, with Lovecraft Country, the cable network's adaptation of Matt Ruff's 2016 novel of the same name. HBO has aired a whole host of literary adaptations this year, from Westworld to The Plot Against America to My Brilliant Friend, but none of them featured a single monster with monstrous tentacles.
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