Matt Ruff is the author of the novels 88 Names, Lovecraft Country, Bad Monkeys, The Mirage, Set This House in Order, Fool on the Hill, and Sewer, Gas & Electric: The Public Works Trilogy. Lovecraft Country takes the unlikeliest of premises and spins it into a funny, fast, exciting and affecting read." “Another ‘only Matt Ruff could do this’ production. Ruff, a cult favorite for his mind-bending fiction, vividly portrays racism as a horror worse than anything conceived by Lovecraft in this provocative, chimerical novel.” “Nonstop adventure that includes time-shifting, shape-shifting, and Lovecraft-like horrors. New York Times Book Review on Lovecraft Country And at every turn, it is the bigotry that hums with the greater evil.” “At every turn, Ruff has great fun pitting mid-20th-century horror and sci-fi cliches against the banal and ever-present bigotry of the era. Stripped of his magic and banished from Chicago at the end of Lovecraft Country, he’s found a way back into power and is ready to pick up where he left off. Yet these troubles are soon eclipsed by the return of Caleb Braithwhite. Now, the supply of magic potion she needs to transform herself is nearly gone, and a surprise visitor throws her already tenuous situation into complete chaos. Letitia’s sister, Ruby, has been leading a double life as her white alter ego, Hillary Hyde. Hippolyta isn’t the only one keeping secrets. Meanwhile, fifteen-year-old Horace Berry, reeling from the killing of a close friend, joins his mother, Hippolyta, and her friend Letitia Dandridge on a research trip to Nevada for The Safe Negro Travel Guide. But Hippolyta has a secret-and far more dangerous-agenda that will take her and Horace to the far end of the universe and bring a new threat home to Letitia’s doorstep. Diagnosed with cancer, he strikes a devil’s bargain with the ghost of Hiram Winthrop, who promises a miracle cure-but to receive it, George will first have to bring Winthrop back from the dead. But an encounter with an old nemesis turns their historical reenactment into a real life-and-death pursuit.īack in Chicago, George Berry fights for his own life.
“Ruff renders a very high-concept, imaginary world with such vividness that you can’t help but feel it’s disturbingly real.”-Christopher MooreĪtticus Turner and his father, Montrose, travel to North Carolina, where they plan to mark the centennial of their ancestor’s escape from slavery by retracing the route he took into the Great Dismal Swamp. In this thrilling adventure, a blend of enthralling historical fiction and fantastical horror, Matt Ruff returns to the world of Lovecraft Country and explores the meaning of death, the hold of the past on the present, and the power of hope in the face of uncertainty.
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