Lovecraft Country
by Matt Ruff
read: 2020
When I wrote about Hellboy, I opined that only a good-hearted demon with a fist of stone could withstand the sanity-crushing revelations of Lovecraftian fiction. Matt Ruff begs to differ, suggesting a more elegant solution: Jim-Crow-era African-Americans, who were forced to endure various other horrors with regularity. If people want to refuse you food, terrorize you when you move in, try to lynch you in the woods, try to murder your family in its home ... really, what can a Shoggoth do you that's any worse?
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