Now an HBO® Series from J.J. Abrams (Executive Producer of
Westworld), Misha Green (Creator of Underground) and Jordan Peele
(Director of Get Out)
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.