Lovecraft, an influential writer of pulp fiction and weird tales, is well-known indeed, it’s a point the characters explicitly discuss. Loewen’s study “Sundown Towns,” as in “get out by.” The racism of H.P.
Matt Ruff, on whose 2016 novel the series is based - sometimes closely, sometimes loosely - was inspired in part by Pam Noles’ 2006 essay “Shame,” about the unbearable whiteness of sci-fi and the difficulties it presents to what she calls an “FoP,” as in, “Fan of Pigment,” and in its particulars by “The Negro Motorist Green-Book” and by James W. That Misha Green’s series “Lovecraft Country” has something to say about the ordinary horrors of racism as well as the cosmic ones of fantastic fiction is mixed into its foundation.
