With The Destroyer of Worlds-a Return to Lovecraft Country, Ruff dives head first back into the singular world he’s created, and it’s even more gonzo, more chaotic, and if anything even faster moving. The fact that Ruff did all that while also acknowledging, and slyly tweaking, the well-known fact the Lovecraft was an unrepentant racist just makes it that much more fun. Lovecraft’s patented cosmic horror, and a secret cabal of powerful magicians, and crafted a novel that hurtled like a runaway freight train from beginning to end without ever careening off the track. Ruff somehow combined the very real dangers a family faces in Jim Crow America with H.P. I’m going to sound old fashioned here, but so be it-Matt Ruff’s Lovecraft Country was a humdinger of a novel.
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