Lovecraft country goodreads

Still, some of its parallels are more intentional than others. Like the 2016 novel it’s based on, HBO’s Lovecraft Country is both a tribute to and a subversion of Lovecraft’s work. It would take years after his death in 1937 for Lovecraft’s monsters and aliens to earn respect as real literature, and still more for the author’s legacy to be critically interrogated on account of his open bigotry. Lovecraft toiled in obscurity, part of a wider dismissal of so-called “pulp” as a source of artistic merit. In his lifetime, the now-massively influential H.P. Martin tend to have a stilted tone that’s easily parodied the shared ethos of fantasy and science fiction puts exposition first and prose second. Even massively successful, highly regarded writers like George R.R. It’s par for the course in genre fiction for ideas to outpace execution.