In 1950s America, a young Black man and his family face horrors both cosmic and brutally human as they cross a country rigged against them. Secret lodges, forbidden tomes, and Jim Crow collide in a road trip that rewrites pulp nightmares with blazing heart. Lovecraft Country is audacious, chilling, and fiercely alive.
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If you loved how Atticus, Letitia, Montrose, Ruby, and Hippolyta each took the wheel in different chapters—whether it was Letitia battling the Winthrop House or Ruby testing that body-changing potion—then you’ll click with the Kaul family in Jade City. You get a similarly layered, character-forward ensemble navigating rival clans, back-room deals, and street-level peril, with shifting viewpoints that echo the way Lovecraft Country rotates through its cast while the stakes steadily rise.
You enjoyed how Lovecraft Country jumps from Atticus’s road-trip dangers to Hippolyta’s portal odyssey and back again, each perspective adding a new angle on the larger menace behind Caleb Braithwhite and the Order of the Ancient Dawn. In The City We Became, five avatars of New York narrate in turn as they confront a tentacled, otherworldly enemy—delivering that same chorus of voices, neighborhood-by-neighborhood stakes, and a big, weird, cosmic conflict coalescing through multiple lenses.
If the blend of Jim Crow-era danger with sorcery—the sundown towns, the secret lodges, the spellcraft Caleb wields—hooked you, Ring Shout delivers that punch in a different decade. A Black resistance crew hunts Ku Klux demons in 1920s Georgia, mixing sword-wielding action with uncanny horror. Like Letitia claiming a haunted house while defying white supremacy, the heroes here fight both the human hate and the monstrous forces behind it.
The way Lovecraft Country slots ritual magic into 1950s America—from blood-ward glyphs to that dangerous portal Hippolyta steps through—points to a taste for uncanny forces operating behind everyday life. The Library at Mount Char takes that vibe darker and stranger: a group of "librarians" wield impossible disciplines under a terrifying patriarch, their loosely explained arts colliding in suburbia. If Caleb’s casual rule-breaking magic intrigued you, this book’s reality-warping feats will too.
If Letitia’s purchase of the Winthrop House—and the chilling things it did at night—was one of your favorite arcs, Mexican Gothic gives you a similarly gripping house-as-enigma. Socialite Noemí Taboada arrives to probe a family’s decaying mansion, peeling back layers of rot, repression, and something not-quite-human in the walls. It’s that same sleuthing-through-rooms energy, escalating from odd noises to full-on occult horror.
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