History Literature / LovecraftCountry

* TheOrder: The Adamite Order of the Ancient Dawn.

* VillainousRescue: Early in the novel, Caleb rescues Atticus and co. from the Bideford police who were going to murder them by siccing a Shoggoth on the officers.

* AngryBlackMan: Montrose is understandably resentful of the systemic racism African Americans of the period had to endure, but unlike all the other characters he is far more likely to lash out out it and berate his fellow black people for not fighting it tooth and nail. He goes as far as assaulting children on the street he doesn't even know over it.

* VillainousRescue: Early in the novel, Caleb rescues Atticus and co. from Ardham police who were going to murder them by siccing a Shoggoth on the officers.

Lovecraft Country is a 2016 novel from Matt Ruff. Set in the Jim Crow era, it stars [[{{Allusion}} the aptly named]] Atticus Turner as a 22 year old African American army veteran, whose father Montrose goes missing in Main/LovecraftCountry. Despite the threats posed by a [[TheOrder secret order]] hiding in a village of questionable temporal geography with [[BlobMonster shoggoths]] roaming about the woods, Ruff effectively uses the CosmicHorrorStory as a foil to show [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters just how horrific racism can be]].

Lovecraft Country is 2016 novel from Matt Ruff. Set in the Jim Crow era, it stars [[{{Allusion}} the aptly named]] Atticus Turner as a 22 year old African American army veteran, whose father Montrose goes missing in Main/LovecraftCountry. Despite the threats posed by a [[{{TheOrder}} secret order]] hiding in a village of questionable temporal geography with [[{{BlobMonster}} shoggoths]] roaming about the woods, Ruff effectively uses the CosmicHorrorStory as a foil to show [[{{HumansAreTheRealMonsters}} just how horrific racism can be]].

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Lovecraft's incorrect naming of the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred is lampshaded by Abdullah Mohammed, the head of the local Prince Hall Freemasons, and by Montrose, Atticus' father, who claims it's just "a white guy from Rhode Island trying to be funny."

* CorruptHick: Unsurprisingly given the period and setting, Atticus and his family as well as anyone else traveling as part of the Safe Negro Travel Guide. These range from police officers who stop and harass for a pretext to police officers who will kill any African-American who enters their county.

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: Early in the novel, the characters go to a restaurant that had been recommended in the Safe Negro Travel Guide for friendly and welcoming service from the white owners and otherwise good amenities. However, when they go there, they are met with silence and hostility, and as a seemingly minor difference, everything is newly whitewashed rather than the old red brick. Atticus is suspicious from the outset, and after noticing some signs of scorch marks, Atticus reminds his Uncle George of a factoid of how the White House got its name from being repainted after being torched by the British during the War of 1812. At this point, George understands Atticus' meaning and has an OhCrap reaction, realizing that after the last visit, the place had been torched by a racist mob with [[InferredHolocaust likely fatal consequences for the former owners]], and the new owners are coming for them.

* EqualOpportunityEvil: Caleb is a very dangerous sorcerer, but he shows no sign of bigotry or prejudice throughout the entire novel, [[spoiler: not even when Atticus and his family take away his power,]] which is quite impressive considering the kind of environment he was raised in and the era. He even seems to take pleasure in using his powers to help Atticus and his family in outsmarting bigots.

* PragmaticVillainy: Caleb Braithwaite is full of this.

* AsLongAsItSoundsForeign: Lovecraft's incorrect naming of the Mad Arab Abdul Alhazred is lampshaded by Abdullah Mohammed and by Montrose, Atticus' father, who claims it's just "a white guy from Rhode Island trying to be funny."

TomeOfEldritchLore: ''The Book of Names'', which is mistaken by several characters for the ''Necronomicon'' but is explicitly stated not to be. It's still bound in skin, though.

* HauntedHouse: The new house Letitia bought at a suspiciously low price in a white neighborhood turns out to be haunted by its former owner, Hiram Winthrop, a sorcerer who appears in Letitia's dreams as [[HumanoidAbomination a space suit containing a black void filled with tentacles.

Lovecraft Country is 2016 novel from Matt Ruff. Set in the Jim Crow era, it stars [[{{Allusion}} the aptly named]] Atticus Turner as a 22 year old African American army veteran, whose father Montrose goes missing in Main/LovecraftCountry. Despite the threats posed by a [[{{TheOrder}} secret order]] hiding in a village of questionable temporal geography with [[{{BlobMonster}} shoggoths]] roaming about the woods, Ruff effectively uses the CosmicHorrorStory as a foil to show [[{{HumansAreTheRealMonsters}} just how horrific racism can be]].

Lovecraft Country is 2016 novel from Matt Ruff. Set in the Jim Crow era, it stars [[{{Allusion}} the aptly named]] Atticus Turner as a 22 year old African American army veteran, whose father Montrose goes missing in Main/LovecraftCountry. Despite the threats posed by a [[{{TheOrder}} secret order]] hiding in a village of questionable temporal geography with[[{{BlobMonster}} shoggoths]] roaming about the woods, Ruff effectively uses the CosmicHorrorStory as a foil to show [[{{HumansAreTheRealMonsters}} just how horrific racism can be]].

Lovecraft Country is 2016 novel from Matt Ruff. Set in the Jim Crow era, it stars [[{{Allusion}} the aptly named]] Atticus Turner as a 22 year old African American army veteran, whose father Montrose goes missing in Main/LovecraftCountry.