Issue: Takes on Lovecraft Country

Christina Braithwhite’s Strange Love Craft

Amy Hough Christina Braithwhite (Abbey Lee), the Hitchcock-esque, icy blonde, who steps into Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country with enough explosive force to knock a truckload of racist goons off their axles, is not an easy character to define. Her motives are hard to penetrate because she does not exist in our world. She is a […]

All Over the Map: Locating Genre in Lovecraft Country

Bethany Doane The opening scene of 2020’s HBO series Lovecraft Country serves as a perfect microcosm of the series’ themes and generic origins. It begins in black-and-white, a war scene accompanied by an old-Hollywood cinematic score. Atticus Freeman (Jonathan Majors) is an American soldier rushing through dark trenches until an explosion brings bright-orange color into […]