![]() ![]() ![]() The tentacles are found everywhere in Lovecraft’s fiction Black protagonists are not. The signature poster of the show features the actors Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, octopoid tentacles flickering around their faces. Promoting the HBO show Lovecraft Country, the advertisements seemed to suggest that Lovecraft, who died in 1937 in penury in his hometown of Providence, Rhode Island, had finally returned home as an unofficial monarch, king of a genre of horror writing that, especially in the past decade, has provoked an energetic wave of new fiction inspired by Lovecraft’s trailblazing example.īut the devil, in Lovecraft’s case, is in the details. ![]() Lovecraft died of intestinal cancer, having published in his lifetime only one book, riddled with printing errors, his name appeared on billboards throughout the United States. ![]()
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