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Lovecraft Country is a horrifying television series about black folks who face monsters and bigotry within the United States. The show was created by Misha Green and was based on a book by Matt Ruff. The series premiered on HBO on August 16, 2020, and reveals that real-world hate and supernatural fear can be used in tandem to harm individuals.
If you were a fan of Lovecraft Country, these shows will transport you into a parallel world of terror, mystery, and supernatural threat. The TV shows on the list will shock with real-world premises around the complexity of human life, such as racism, despair, and broken families.
The shows feature haunted mansions, monsters, secret laboratories, and black magic. Some are set in the past, and others speculate weird futures or deviant alternatives to our reality. You will encounter strong personalities who take on evil powers to save their loved ones. Ghosts, demons, and other creatures also part take in some of these narratives to reveal how people can be ruined internally by fear and hate.
Disclaimer: This article contains the writer's opinion. Reader discretion is advised.
Here is the list of TV shows that will pull you back into the same chilling, supernatural chaos as Lovecraft Country:
7. The Outsider (2020)
The Outsider is a crime-based TV show that follows Detective Ralph Anderson in investigating the killing of a young boy in Georgia. Everything indicates that the person responsible is coach Terry Maitland. But Terry's evidence says otherwise. This odd case leads Anderson and Holly Gibney, a private investigator, to a horrible conclusion. They discover El Cuco, or The Outsider's presence, a creature with the ability to perfectly imitate people's characteristics by touching them. He hurts people with their appearance and preys on children.
In the Season 1 finale, Ralph and Holly enter a dark cave to halt El Cuco. The creature conceals itself in the shadows, imitating Claude Bolton. This shot reminds me of the ritual room in Lovecraft Country when Atticus confronts wicked witchcraft. Both series trap their protagonists in enclosed spaces filled with shape-changing monsters. An adaptation of the Stephen King novel of the same name, this narrative mix of crime and supernatural terror will appeal to fans of Lovecraft Country.
6. NOS4A2 (2019)
NOS4A2 revolves around the character of Vic McQueen, who possesses a weird talent that connects her to the immortal Charlie Manx. Manx is a frightening individual who transports children to the mind-created reality of Christmasland in his Rolls-Royce, after feeding on them. Manx feeds on the souls of the kids and turns them into his sharp-toothed minions who never show or feel sadness. Vic's only wish is to protect the victims and her son, Wayne, from this evil.
In Season 2 Episode 9, she finally enters Christmasland and is welcomed by demon children and creepy Christmas decorations. The scene is precisely the same as that in the second episode of Lovecraft Country's first season, when Leti is forced to confront enraged ghosts in a spooky house. Both shows are in locations that are full of misery and bodies that cannot be set free. Vic and Leti have to fight a monster to save their family. If you liked the horror/love combo in Lovecraft Country, you might be interested in this.
5. The Twilight Zone (1959)
The Twilight Zone is a legendary 1960s anthology television series in which a new character tells an unusual story/experience/event in each episode. Through the series, viewers have observed that common people are forced to face unfamiliar and scary experiences that they may not be able to explain. In Season 1, Episode 22, titled "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street," as a shadow of a meteor flying overhead is seen, the fear of aliens transforms neighbours into a violent mob. The neighbourhood is unable to fathom or experience a shift from normalcy, and the palpable paranoia leads them into a vicious witch hunt against a neighbour. Dubbed as one of the ten best episodes of The Twilight Zone by TIME, reminds me of Lovecraft Country, where the identical fear and racism cause attacks. The two shows possess an element of supernatural terror, a fear capable of converting people into monsters.
Racist fear and anger drive white police officers to attack Atticus and his family in the woods in Lovecraft Country's Season 1, Episode 1. Both TV shows employ otherworldly terror to highlight actual human depravity, also demonstrating how communities can crumble in the face of terror and paranoia much faster than by a real monster.
4. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels (2020)
This TV series' plot was set in Los Angeles in 1938, a time of prejudice and political unrest. It tells the story of Tiago Vega, the Los Angeles Police Department's first Mexican American detective. Together with his partner, Lewis Michener, he explores a murder that brings him to the world of Mexican folklore, Nazi spies, and a corrupt city. A demon sits in the midst of all that chaos, Ava-Gardner-lookalike Magda, face-shifting into whoever serves her purpose to act out the worst of hate and fear.
Magda thinks people are bad and tends to prove it by getting them at each other's throats. Her sister, Santa Muerte, guides souls after death. Sometimes, as a refugee, other times a political advisor, Magda transforms into anything or anyone that will fool people into making them violent. That's just like Lovecraft Country, where Christina Braithwhite uses magic to bend minds. Both series revolve around powerful women who manipulate reality through magical means.
3. Watchmen (2019)
Watchmen is set in an alternate America in 1985, where masked heroes fight crime. This series is set in the present day, 2019, and is referred to as the "remix" of the 1986 original. The series, set in present-day Tulsa, uncovers the racial injustice and violent events around the area, including the white supremacist group called, Seventh Kavalry in conflict with the Tulsa Police Department.
Will Reeves is a little boy who survives the Tulsa Massacre in Episode 6 of Watchmen. He transforms into "Hooded Justice" because to be welcomed, he needs to conceal who he is. This scene is similar to Lovecraft Country, in which Atticus and his family struggle with monsters and racism. Both series fear and the concept of masked heroes to deal with a broken system that has resulted in harm to the black communities.
2. Stranger Things (2016)
Stranger Things is set in a 1980s little town, Hawkins. The plot revolves around Will, who goes missing, and his friends' efforts to find him. They meet a girl named Eleven, who has powers and can move objects with her mind. She escaped from a secret lab where scientists were experimenting on kids inhumanely. The friends discover that Will is in a horrible place known as the Upside Down. It is overrun with creatures, including the Demogorgon, a faceless monster with a flower-shaped mouth and stinging teeth.
In Season One, Episode Eight, Jonathan, Nancy, and Steve battle the Demogorgon by burning it. This terrifying scene is similar to the Lovecraft Country's monster attack that Atticus and Leti encountered in the woods. Viewers in both series have seen young humans battle creatures from distant worlds. Both Lovecraft Country and Watchmen depict stories about secret experiments that have threatened families.
1. The Haunting of Hill House (2018)
The Haunting of Hill House is a narrative of a family that spends one summer in 1992 in a haunted mansion. Hugh and Olivia Crain decide to live in the house with their five children and renovate it to sell. However, the house has various ghosts and evil spirits that started haunting and injuring them. Olivia is so scared that she leaps off a staircase and falls to her death. The children still escape, but not without pain and trauma. The show shifts between their childhood and their broken adult lives.
The brothers and sisters are seen grappling with heartache, addiction, and panic as adults. The youngest of the sisters, Nell, finally comes back to the house and kills herself, having been haunted by a certain ghost called the Bent-Neck Lady. In the first season, Nell encounters the ghost in the state of sleep paralysis. The scene is echoed in Lovecraft Country Episode 2, where Leti encounters the wrath of the ghosts in a haunted mansion. In both series, past violence creates ghosts that harm the living. It is indicated how trauma lingers even long after the horror ends.
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