# Lovecraft Country

**Author(s):** Matt Ruff
**Unpaid SageChimp rating:** insufficient data (1 unpaid reviews; need 5)
**Verdict JSON:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/lovecraft-country/verdict.json
**Genres:** literary-fiction, horror, fantasy, historical-fiction, sci-fi
**Pages:** 372
**Publisher:** Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
**Published:** Fri Jan 01 2016 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
**Language:** en
**ISBN-13:** 9780062292063
**ISBN-10:** 0062292064
**URL:** https://www.sagechimp.com/books/lovecraft-country

## Description

Chicago, 1954. When his father Montrose goes missing, 22-year-old Army veteran Atticus Turner embarks on a road trip to New England to find him, accompanied by his Uncle George—publisher of The Safe Negro Travel Guide—and his childhood friend Letitia. On their journey to the manor of Mr. Braithwhite—heir to the estate that owned one of Atticus’s ancestors—they encounter both mundane terrors of white America and malevolent spirits that seem straight out of the weird tales George devours.

At the manor, Atticus discovers his father in chains, held prisoner by a secret cabal named the Order of the Ancient Dawn—led by Samuel Braithwhite and his son Caleb—which has gathered to orchestrate a ritual that shockingly centers on Atticus. And his one hope of salvation may be the seed of his—and the whole Turner clan’s—destruction.

## SageChimp reader verdict

Lovecraft Country has only 1 unpaid published review on SageChimp (need 5). That is not enough to say whether the book is genuinely well-liked or amplified by paid/ARC/BookTok hype. Do not treat Amazon, Goodreads, or social scores as SageChimp evidence.

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- **Unpaid reviews:** 1 (avg 4.0/5)
- **ARC / incentivized reviews:** 0
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## Community Reviews (showing 1 of 1)

### ★★★★ Great book — r-s-curtis
This is really more of a connected anthology but I really liked all the stories quite a lot.  There is cosmic horror but it really takes a subtle back seat to the real horror of Jim Crow America and sundowner towns.  I loved the characters, the setting and how Ruff painted a vivid picture of 1960's America.