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 ...

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 ...

Lovecraft Country, created by Misha Green and adapted from the novel by Matt Ruff, has become one of HBO’s most critically acclaimed shows. And the music is a huge part of it.

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 ...

Lovecraft’s language “fails” only insofar as the narrators fail to get into words, to journalize, some experience that simply cannot be fully available to the meager human senses and mind.

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 ...

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 ...

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