Lovecraft Country Finale Recap: Is [Spoiler] Really Dead? Plus, Grade It!

RELATED STORIES Warning: This post contains major spoilers from Sunday’s Season 1 finale of Lovecraft Country.  No matter which way you flip Lovecraft Country‘s Season 1 finale, it comes out tails — like, literal kumiho tails — and everyone loses. Ji-Ah’s curse comes in handy at exactly the right moment in Sunday’s season-ender, and it’s the factor […]

Lovecraft Country: Grade the Premiere!

RELATED STORIES The premiere of HBO’s new sci-fi period drama, Lovecraft Country, adds a disturbing new dimension to the phrase “sundown town.” The term traditionally has referred to all-white communities where Blacks are not safe — and in many cases, outright banned — after dark. Lovecraft Country‘s protagonist, Atticus Freeman (played by When We Rise‘s […]

Lovecraft Country’s Atticus Is on the Hunt for a Museum’s Buried Secrets in Season 1 Sneak Peek

RELATED STORIES The next time you’re in a natural history museum, take a closer look at the reptiles’ smiles. Because an otherwise unremarkable incisor might just be the key to “some Journey to the Center of the Earth-type s–t,” as is the case in this new sneak peek from HBO’s upcoming Lovecraft Country. The new […]

Call of Cthulhu PS4 review: Treads the line between Lovecraft and hate

Call of Cthulhu PS4 review (Image: FOCUS HOME INTERACTIVE) The influence of H.P. Lovecraft on modern horror cannot be overstated.  Whenever a video game horrifies you with a writhing, tentacled monstrosity from another world; whenever you shudder at the story of some fanatical priest allowing their body to be grotesquely twisted and deformed in their […]

Tesla vs Lovecraft Is All Thunderbolts And Lightning, Also Very Very Frightening

In Tesla vs Lovecraft, eldritch horrors from beyond threaten the world and only you, Nikola Tesla, can stop them with the power of science. Yay, science! This fast-paced twin-stick shooter has you fighting against countless unspeakable abominations. As they hunt you through each level, you can decimate them with a huge arsenal of mostly lightning-based […]

Yann Demange Will Helm Jordan Peele and J.J. Abrams’ ‘Lovecraft Country’

Recent Oscar winner Jordan Peele already has his next project lined-up: producing the HBO series Lovecraft Country with J.J. Abrams. Now, Peele and Abrams have hired a director to helm the show: ’71 filmmaker Yann Demange. More on the Lovecraft Country director below. I can’t wait to see what Jordan Peele directs next, but while we wait […]

Mythos Tales: Probe Arkham’s darkest doings in this Lovecraft deduction game

Enlarge (credit: 8th Summit) Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think. You’re just an ordinary 1930s inhabitant of the ordinary town of Arkham, Massachusetts—a plain New England place where nothing unusual ever happens. Well, except for that one […]