He and Letitia struggle and he nearly kills her until she convinces him that if he does she will stay as a ghost and haunt him back. After moving in, she realizes that the house is haunted by Winthrop's ghost who is not too happy about sharing it with new residents.

Letitia plans on fixing it up and renting out the rooms.

Letitia receives an inheritance from her late mother, and uses it to buy, in a white neighborhood, a large 14-bedroom house called the Winthrop House (named after the original owner, Hiram Winthrop) which was being sold cheap due to it being haunted. Atticus does this and it causes the unleashed power to consume Samuel and all the members of the lodge and turn them into dust while protecting Atticus.Ĭaleb releases Atticus, George, Montrose and Letitia and lets them leave to go back to Chicago. Caleb Braithwhite (Samuel's only son) is also in attendance and he secretly provides Atticus with an incantation to say during the ceremony. The current owner of the house, Samuel Braithwhite, is planning a ceremony with all of the members of his lodge (a sect of sorcerers called 'The Order of the Ancient Dawn') during which he needs a Braithwhite descendant to be a conduit for some ancient power. Montrose is being held hostage, chained up in a basement. Atticus learns that he is the descendant of the Lodge's founder, Titus Braithwhite. Once at Ardham they find a large manor house called Ardham Lodge. They are chased, accosted, and later nearly murdered by racists on the way. Atticus, his uncle George, and his childhood friend Letitia drive to Ardham to find Montrose. The book consists of eight interconnected stories:Ītticus Turner, working in Florida after leaving the army, returns home to Chicago after receiving a mysterious letter from his estranged father, Montrose, saying he had left Chicago to go to Ardham, Massachusetts, where he believed he could find some information on Atticus's mother's family (previously unknown to them). Samuel Braithwhite, a white man, lodgemaster at Ardham sorcerers' coven.Letitia Dandridge, a neighborhood friend of Atticus's growing up in Chicago.Hippolyta Berry, Atticus's aunt (wife of George).

George Berry, Atticus's uncle (husband of Hippolyta).

Atticus Turner, a Black man, former soldier in the Korean war.

Lovecraft and racism in the United States during the era of Jim Crow laws, as experienced by black science-fiction fan Atticus Turner and his family. Lovecraft Country is a 2016 dark fantasy horror novel by Matt Ruff, exploring the conjunction between the horror fiction of H.

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