Lovecraft advised aspiring wordsmiths to avoid popular magazines, study the prose of the King James Bible (despite not being a believer himself), and become avid collectors of words.

Lovecraft Country Episode 2 takes its title from a song/spoken word poem by artist Gil Scott-Heron. The lyrics of “Whitey on the Moon” detail the numerous sorrows plaguing Scott-Heron’s ...

The writer of ‘Lovecraft Country’, Matt Ruff, talks to Ed Power about the TV adaptation of his novel, which tells the story of a black American family battling racist white occultists, and why ...

In Lovecraft Country episode eight, "Jig-a-Bobo," Diana Freeman's finest moment is backed by the empowering words of activist Naomi Wadler.

Lovecraft Country may not always be better than HBO’s Watchmen, another recent show that used popular genre forms as a way in to larger sociological debates, but it often makes Watchmen (or even ...

The series is based on Matt Ruff’s 2016 novel, also called Lovecraft Country, and is deeply informed by the work—and, oddly, by the life and the legacy—of H.P. Lovecraft, who was both a ...

In January of 1920, iconic science fiction and fantasy author H. P. Lovecraft published a short guide titled "Literary Composition" for United Amateur Press Association—a grassroots literary ...

Those are the words Samuel Braithwhite (Tony Goldwyn) greets Tic (Jonathan Majors) with upon their first meeting in “Whitey’s on the Moon,” the second episode of HBO’s Lovecraft Country ...

HP Lovecraft created cosmic worlds and riveting fantasy horror, before dying impoverished and obscure at the age of 46. More than 80 years later, his genius has finally been unearthed, along with ...

Lovecraft Country Episode 7 "I Am" introduced Hippolyta to Josephine Baker, Frida Kahlo, Nawi, and a Beyoncé in-joke.