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.