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Lovecraft Country's Misha Green Recommends These Books and Movies to Help Get the Full Show Experience

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Lovecraft Country, HBO's gripping new horror series that's based on a novel of the same name by Matt Ruff, is packed to the Innsmouthian fish-person gills with allusions to classic horror, sci-fi, and adventure stories, as well as important works of Black literature and pop culture.

The series premiere alone contains references to H.P. Lovecraft's shoggoths, James Baldwin, Dracula, John Carter of Mars, and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, among others, all woven together to make something new and exciting.

The series is so intertextual that you might need some help untangling all the references and homages, so we asked showrunner Misha Green for a Lovecraft Country reading/watchlist, in both its Lovecraftian and Baldwinian threads, to accompany.

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