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Matt Ruff: Lovecraft Country (2016, Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers) 4 stars

Review of 'Lovecraft Country' on 'Goodreads'

5 stars

So good! I loved these stories as Lovecraft-inspired fantasy, and I loved the perspective woven through them: the constant anxiety and tension of facing immense, inimical mystery which has no regard for your life combined with the similar psychological tensions and existential dangers experienced by black Americans during Jim Crow.

Told as a series of short stories, or the experiences of different members of a family, with a common thread of traveling for the Safe Negro Travel Guide. That mission and danger is always in the back of your mind, and it's so compatible with cosmic horror, that its use is electric and obvious and perfect.