Lovecraft Country, a short-lived HBO series, remains one of television's most acclaimed takes on H.P. Lovecraft's cosmic horror, holding an 88% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The show is notable for setting its story in the Jim Crow-era United States, using Lovecraftian monsters and mythology to explore racism, segregation and prejudice, while pointedly acknowledging Lovecraft's own history of xenophobic writing by making a Black man, Atticus Freeman, its hero.

The plot follows Atticus (Jonathan Majors), a Korean War veteran, who returns to Chicago to find his father Montrose (Michael K. Williams) missing, prompting a road trip with his uncle George (Courtney B. Vance) and childhood friend Letitia (Jurnee Smollett) into New England's "Lovecraft Country". There they uncover a conspiracy led by a white supremacist cult, the Sons of Adam, and find that human prejudice often proves more dangerous than the supernatural threats they encounter. The article draws parallels with HBO's Watchmen, another series released around the same time that similarly uses speculative fiction to confront real-world social and civil rights issues.