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Letters to the Editor for Sept. 1

Lovecraft Country speaks to the interest and urgency surrounding TV shows that recognize the horror elements in literary depictions of Black tragedy and trauma. There was horror in the minstrelsy of The Clansman, the Thomas Dixon Jr. novel that served as the basis for the 1915 film Birth Of A Nation. Pecola Breedlove’s narrative in Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye was a horror story. Terrorizing Black people for their Blackness is horrific. Like its predecessors, including Them understand...