![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In the overture, set in 1954, we meet Atticus, a veteran of the Korean war, who learns that his estranged father has disappeared in Massachusetts, trying to find out a family secret. The book is beautifully structured as a short story collection and novel at one and the same time. Is it scarier if the sheet-clad thing holding a burning torch is a genuine ghost, or just your average member of the Ku Klux Klan? It pits a predominantly black cast of characters against “America’s demons”, though the Shoggoth in the woods is not nearly as dangerous as the systemic and ubiquitous racism they encounter. Matt Ruff’s new book is therefore a kind of exorcism. T here are a few things that are widely known about the work of HP Lovecraft – his viscous, tentacular monsters his fondness for words such as “eldritch” and “gibbous” and his racism. ![]()
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