Lovecraft Country (Lovecraft Country, volume 1) by Matt Ruff

[james_davis_nicoll]

Meeting long-lost relatives has drawbacks, when those relatives are wealthy, white cultists.

Lovecraft Country  (Lovecraft Country, volume 1) by Matt Ruff 

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[patrick_morris_miller]

When I meet a white cosmic horror fan, I bring the conversation around to Lovecraft Country. What follows determines whether I will ever speak to them again.

Generally speaking, people get entangled in this stuff for three reasons

Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom (a response to/rewrite of HPL's most viciously racist story) gives a fourth reason: vs oheavat qbja gur ragver jbeyq vf gur pybfrfg guvat gb whfgvpr ba bssre, unaq zr gur zngpurf.

[petrea_mitchell]

This book was published within a few months of Nick Mamatas’ I Am Providence. I wonder how many Lovecraft-themed books appeared in 2016?

ISTR quite a burst of Lovecraft remixes around then. 2016 also gave us The Ballad of Black Tom and The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe.

I thought "Shoggoths in Bloom" was about then too, but the Internet claims the short story dates to 2008 and even the collection was out in 2012.