Racism Is America’s Lovecraftian Horror

In 2020, the real terror arises from realizing there’s no good ‘normal’ to get back to

Jude Ellison S. Doyle
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6 min readAug 21, 2020

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Jonathan Majors and Jurnee Smollett in “Lovecraft Country.” Photo: Elizabeth Morris/HBO

The weekend that Misha Green’s Lovecraft Country premiered on HBO, a house listing went viral on Twitter. The property is, at first, lovely, with marble countertops and hardwood floors. It’s old-fashioned but not rundown. Then you keep clicking through…

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Jude Ellison S. Doyle
GEN
Writer for

Author of “Trainwreck” (Melville House, ‘16) and “Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers” (Melville House, ‘19). Columns published far and wide across the Internet.