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Its part scififantasy and part social commentary on 1950s america as experienced by african americans

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Each chapter is basically a short story that is centered around one of the characters

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Takes all the racism and ignorance from pulp scifi and twists it into a tale of one familys journey through jim crow

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Speculative fiction writer matt ruff uses lovecraftian tropes as a conduit for examining racism in mid20th century america

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Although the braithwhites are keeping atticus’s father chained in a cellar it’s atticus whom the order has set its sights on atticus being the direct descendent of an illicit affair between a mighty mage and a runaway slave girl

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Ruff successfully interweaves lovecraftian dread with the horrors of the jim crow era

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The searing racial violence ratchets up the tension to ghastly levels with the inclusion of dark warlocks ghosts interdimensional portals and even animated devil dolls the existential terror and racism fueling one other

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Interestingly very little of the novel is actually set in the eponymous lovecraft country the fictional new england landscape in which lovecraft set most of his tales