Book· 2016· Horror

Lovecraft Country

by Matt Ruff

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  • The Negro Motorist Green Book

Ruff's Black characters travel 1950s Jim Crow America with a guidebook modelled on the Negro Motorist Green Book.

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Lovecraft Country

Lovecraft Country is a 2016 dark fantasy Black horror novel by American writer Matt Ruff, exploring the conjunction between the horror fiction of H. P. Lovecraft and racism in the United States during the era of Jim Crow laws, as experienced by black science fiction fan Atticus Turner and his family. It was published by HarperCollins.

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