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Lovecract Country is based on a novel of the same name, but it deviates in more
ways than readers would expect from an HBO adaptation.
By Darby Harn Published Oct 09, 2020
Lovecraft Craft HBO Book Show

HBO's Lovecraft Country has proven to be one of the most dynamic and challenging
shows in its first season on HBO. The series leverages the pulp and genre aspects
of adventure and horror fiction and combines them - often clashes them - with the
sober reality of American history. Along the way, the show makes numerous changes
from the original Matt Ruff novel to create this unique style.

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The show follows the book in large measure, with a vignette style that allows it to
explore different corners of its universe. There are some pretty big changes from
the source material though, especially with some of the most important characters.
10 Christina Braithwaite Was A Man

One of the biggest twists of the season (so far) is the fact that Christina
Braithwaite is in fact also William. This shocking (and gruesome!) reveal is built
off another change from the book.

In the novel, Christina is a man named Caleb Braithwaite. She undergoes no such
transformation in the book and as such, her story in the show is completely
different. This change allows her an extraordinary opportunity - if a complicated
one - to become one of the series' most fascinating characters, existing at the
intersection of gender, race, and class.
9 William Was Made For The Show
William Lovecraft Country

A consequence of the change in Christina's character is William, or the lack

thereof. William doesn't exist at all in the book mostly because Christina is
already a man to begin with. The show definitely benefitted from the change in her
character, allowing it to build a complex mystery that it teased from the jump.

The William/Christina dynamic also unfolds nicely - if disturbingly - into the

story of Ruby. Their experiences and their aims are vastly different, but the
degree of their ambition might be similar enough to make them both dangerous (and
compelling).
8 Dee Was A Boy
Lovecraft Country Dee

Similar to William, Diana Freeman doesn't exist in the novel Lovecraft Country, but
not exactly in the way one would expect. In the book, she's a boy named Horace.
Many of the details are the same though.

For one, both love comic books. Dee is much more established as a budding artist
though, and the show spends a nice amount of time showing her talent, especially in
episode one. Horace isn't friends with a boy named Bobo (more on him in a minute)
in the book either but does end up the victim of a curse of Captain Lancaster.
7 Geroge Freeman Doesn't Die
Lovecraft Country Episode 2 George and Montrose Freeman

One of the most shocking events of the season occurred at the end of the second
episode. George Freeman dies in the arms of (and maybe at the hands of) his brother
Montrose. George doesn't die at all in the book and his story in the television
series is completely different as a result.

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George's story is far from over, as the series has shown, and there is much more
mystery about his death and life to be resolved. It's possible that given the hints
and suggestions, George is actually Atticus' father and not Montrose as everyone
believes.
6 The Show Has More Historical References
Lovecraft Country Season 1 Episode 8 Emmett Till Funeral

The real life death of Emmett Till plays a major role in the eighth episode of the
series. Emmett has been introduced back in episode three as Bobo, a friend of
Dee's. His death casts a long shadow over the series but doesn't have any
connection to the book.

The show has been much more ambitious in tying into the actual historical reality
of the '50s than the book was. This is seen in numerous other references to major
events in African-American history like the Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921, which was
also featured in the HBO series Watchmen.
5 Ruby Is More Ambitious
Wunmi Mosaku Ruby Lovecraft Country

Ruby Baptiste featured in one of the show's most visually horrifying and
thematically challenging episodes to date. That being said, much of her character
is an invention of the show.

Ruby is extroverted, a singer and dancer, and ambitious. In the book, she's the
exact opposite. She has no designs on scoring a gig at Marshall Field's and works
menial jobs without ever making a huge impression in the story. Her transformation
into a white woman plays a key role in the book, but it plays out very differently.
4 The Characters' Family Names Are Different

There are big changes between Lovecraft Country the novel and the series. There are
a number of smaller ones, too, and a lot of these miniscule changes have to do with
the character's names. The biggest change has to do with the family name of Atticus
Freeman. His last name in the book is Turner.

This has ripple effects in the names of George and Montrose, who are only half-
brothers in the book. George Freeman is George Berry, but now he's a Freeman.
Another change is Leti's last name. In the book, she's Letitia Dandridge and in the
show, it's Lewis.
3 Montrose Was Less Troubled

Montrose is one of the most fascinating and complex characters in the show. His
violent tendencies, secretive behavior, and uncertain connection to the magical
past of his family all make for a compelling character. Virtually none of it exists
in the book, though.

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In the novel, Montrose does not have a familiarity with the dark magic of the
Braithwaite family. His sexual identity is also different, with his struggle with
being gay being completely unique to the series.
2 Everything That Happens In Leti's House

The third episode throws a huge curveball for fans of the show and the book. The
show seems to burn through a season's worth of story in the first two episodes and
then settles into a seemingly unrelated haunted house story.

The house Leti buys in a white neighborhood in Chicago does have roots in the book,
but much of the events of the episode don't occur in printed form. Another big
change is that in the book, Leti befriends the spirit of the former homeowner,
Hiram Epstein, instead of banishing him.
1 There's No Ji-Ah
Ji-Ah Lovecraft Country

One of the biggest differences between the show and the book has to do with the
character of Ji-Ah. In the book, she doesn't exist at all. It's hard to imagine the
show without her, especially with her episode-long showcase that took fans back to
Atticus' time in the Korean War.

Her story is not just a compelling exploration of Korean mythology in the form of
the kumiho, but a loving tribute to Hollywood musicals as well. The Korean War is
only briefly referenced in the book, which gives no opportunity for a character
like Ji-Ah to emerge even in a cameo.

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Lovecraft Country is an American horror drama television series developed by Misha

Green based on and serving as a continuation of the 2016 novel of the same name by
Matt Ruff. Starring Jurnee Smollett and Jonathan Majors, it premiered on August 16,
2020, on HBO.[2] The series is produced by Monkeypaw Productions, Bad Robot
Productions, and Warner Bros. Television Studios. While a second season, Lovecraft
Country: Supremacy, was in development, HBO announced in July 2021 that the series
had been canceled.[3] The series is about a young Black man who travels across the
segregated 1950s United States in search of his missing father, learning of dark
secrets plaguing a town on which famous horror writer H. P. Lovecraft supposedly
based the location of many of his fictional tales.
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Genre

Period drama
Supernatural horror[1]
Science fiction
Based on
Lovecraft Country
by Matt Ruff
Developed by
Misha Green
Starring

Jurnee Smollett
Jonathan Majors
Aunjanue Ellis
Courtney B. Vance
Wunmi Mosaku
Abbey Lee
Jamie Chung
Jada Harris
Michael K. Williams

Music by
Laura Karpman and Raphael Saadiq
Ending theme
"Sinnerman" by Alice Smith
Country of origin
United States
Original language
English
No. of seasons
1
No. of episodes
10
Production
Executive producers

Misha Green
J. J. Abrams
Jordan Peele
Yann Demange
David Knoller (pilot)
Bill Carraro
Ben Stephenson
Daniel Sackheim

Producers

Christina Varotsis
Dana Robin

Cinematography

Tat Radcliffe
Robert McLachlan
Michael Watson

Editors
 Marta Evry
Chris Wyatt
Joel T. Pashby
Bjørn T. Myrholt
Ian S. Tan
Sean Albertson
Paul Harb

Camera setup
Single-camera
Running time
53–68 minutes
Production companies

Afemme
Monkeypaw Productions
Bad Robot Productions
Warner Bros. Television Studios

Distributor
Warner Bros. Television Distribution
Release
Original network
HBO
Original release
August 16 –
October 18, 2020
External links
Website
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Cast and characters
EpisodesEdit
No. Title Directed by Teleplay by Original air date U.S. viewers
(millions)
1 "Sundown" Yann Demange Misha Green August 16, 2020 0.760[6]
After arriving in Chicago, Korean War veteran Atticus Freeman discovers a letter
from his missing father, Montrose, inviting him to discover his family legacy in
Ardham, Massachusetts. Atticus, his uncle George (who writes a Green Book-style
Black travel guide), and his friend Leti set off on a road trip to Devon County,
Massachusetts. A group of murderous white men chase them out of the first town they
stop in, but they escape thanks to the intervention of an unknown white woman, who
somehow causes the mob's car to flip over. Soon after, they encounter the racist
sheriff of Devon County, Eustice Hunt, who is eager to enforce the county's sundown
law. Just after sunset, the sheriff's deputies force the travelers into the woods
with the intent to lynch them, but the entire group is attacked by vicious monsters
called shoggoths. Atticus, George and Leti fight their way out, while the police
officers perish. The shoggoths are called away by a whistle. In the morning, the
trio stumbles out of the woods to find an enormous mansion, where they are welcomed
by a mysterious white man, William, who greets them warmly.
2 "Whitey's on the Moon" Daniel Sackheim Misha Green August 23, 2020
0.867[7]
William explains that the mansion is Ardham Lodge, designed by Titus Braithwhite, a
slave trader and the founder of an occult secret society of wizards called the Sons
of Adam. George realizes that Atticus is a descendant (through implied rape) of
Titus and thus a premier member of the Sons. Because of this powerful heritage,
Samuel Braithwhite, the current owner of the Lodge and leader of the Sons, plans to
use – and potentially sacrifice – Atticus in an upcoming ritual. The white woman
who helped the group earlier is revealed to be Samuel's daughter, Christina, who
has a whistle that controls the monsters. After telling Atticus that not all white
people are bad, she traps the travelers in their respective rooms with magic force
fields. They eventually break out and rescue Montrose, who George had earlier
deduced was being held captive in a nearby village. Samuel stops them, shooting and
killing Leti and seriously wounding George. Atticus agrees to cooperate in the
ritual to save their lives, but the magic backfires as a black woman in a 19th-
century dress appears (implied to be Atticus's slave ancestor), turning Samuel and
the other Sons to stone and burning down the mansion. Atticus escapes, only to
discover that although Leti has been resurrected, George has succumbed to his
wounds.
3 "Holy Ghost" Daniel Sackheim Misha Green August 30, 2020 0.747[8]
Three weeks after George's funeral, Leti uses an unexpected inheritance from her
deceased mother to buy a dilapidated Victorian mansion in an all-white neighborhood
on Chicago's North Side, filling it with black renters together with her half-
sister Ruby. The white neighbors harass them and burn a cross on the lawn. A white
supremacist police officer, Captain Lancaster, threatens Leti. Inside the house,
supernatural activity flares up. Leti learns that the previous owner was a white
scientist, Hiram Epstein. With the help of Lancaster, he kidnapped, experimented
on, and killed eight black people before burying them under the house. All nine
spirits are trapped there. With the help of a medium and the black spirits, Leti
banishes Epstein's malevolent ghost. Later, Atticus finds Christina Braithwhite in
Chicago; she survived the fire. Atticus has deduced that she was secretly the
source of the "inheritance" and had steered Leti to the house. Christina explains
that the house was built by Horatio Winthrop, a Sons of Adam member banished after
stealing pages from The Book of Names in the 1800s, and that Epstein was a follower
of Winthrop's. She asks Atticus to help her find the missing pages, which could
help decipher "the language of Adam". Atticus attempts to shoot her, but he is not
able to pull the trigger.
4 "A History of Violence" Victoria Mahoney Misha Green
Story by : Wes Taylor September 6, 2020[a] 0.630[10]
Montrose learns that Titus Braithwhite's pages from the Book of Names are stored in
a vault in a museum in Boston where Braithwhite donated a wing dedicated to his
career as an explorer. Montrose tries to hide this information from Tic, as he
wants his son to stop pursuing magic, but he eventually relents and goes with Tic
and Leti to the museum. They break into the vault after hours and find a desiccated
corpse bent over the pages. When Tic tries to take them, the corpse reanimates into
an Arawak Two-Spirit named Yahima. Yahima tell Tic that Braithwhite kidnapped them
and locked them in the vault after they translated the pages for him. They agree to
leave with the Chicago travelers, but the vault begins to flood, and the four
barely escape. Upon returning to Chicago, Montrose murders Yahima to keep them from
revealing more information about the pages. Meanwhile, Sheriff Lancaster and
Christina vie over control of the Chicago Sons of Adam lodge, William seduces Ruby,
and Hippolyta and Diana go in search of answers about George's death.
5 "Strange Case" Cheryl Dunye Misha Green and Jonathan I. Kidd & Sonya
Winton-Odamtten September 13, 2020 0.744[11]
After sleeping with William, Ruby wakes up as a white woman and William reveals to
her his metamorphosis potion. Montrose tells Atticus that he has taken care of
Yahima and destroyed the pages, causing his son to nearly beat him to death. Leti
tells Atticus that she is afraid of his anger, but the two later reconcile and have
sex. Montrose goes to Sammy's apartment and has sex with him. As Tic works on
deciphering the "Language of Adam" from Leti's photos, Leti warns him that the use
of magic is inherently evil and will corrupt him. Ruby decides to keep using the
potion for its privilege and gets a job as an associate manager at the department
store under the name of Hillary. William tells her that she must perform a "favor"
for Christina by planting a runic stone in Captain Lancaster's office. While doing
so, she discovers an imprisoned man who has been tortured and learns that Captain
Lancaster has a partially black body. Later, Ruby witnesses her white boss, Paul,
attempt to sexually assault Tamara. After Christina tells Ruby to embrace power,
Ruby rapes Paul with a stiletto heel. Ruby confronts William and asks what he and
Christina do in the basement and William metamorphoses into Christina. As Atticus
works on the language, he translates something that causes him to call his former
lover, Ji-Ah, in South Korea.
6 "Meet Me in Daegu" Helen Shaver Misha Green and Kevin Lau
September 20, 2020 0.737[12]
In 1949 South Korea, Ji-Ah studies to be a nurse and lives with her mother who
demands she pick up men to have sex with. Ji-Ah brings home a man and kills him
with her tentacle-like "Nine Tails" that project out of her body. It is revealed
that Ji-Ah is possessed by a kumiho, the "Nine-tailed Fox" spirit and she must kill
100 men to be human again. Her stepfather was raping her, and her mother had a
shaman send the kumiho to possess her daughter to kill him. In 1950, the Korean War
begins and Ji-Ah works as a nurse. To smoke out a Communist spy, the Americans
arrest the nurses and Atticus executes one of the nurses. Ji-Ah's friend Young-Ja
reveals herself to be the spy. Ji-Ah decides to seduce Atticus with the intention
of killing him, but falls in love with him instead. Ji-Ah believes she can control
her "Tails", but while having sex with Atticus, her "tails" emerge and attack him.
She has a vision of his future and tells him he will die if he returns to America.
Atticus ends the relationship. Ji-Ah and her mother consult the shaman who tells
them that many more will die.
7 "I Am." Charlotte Sieling Misha Green and Shannon Houston September
27, 2020 0.755[13]
Hippolyta visits the ruins of the Ardham Lodge and discovers that George was there.
She works out how to use the orrery and finds a key hidden within. Christina shows
Ruby the corpse of William (who was killed by Lancaster) and Dell, and asks for her
help. Leti and Atticus discover that they are both having dreams of Hanna
(Atticus's slave ancestor) and deduce that she escaped with the Book of Names.
Atticus discovers his father's homosexuality while Leti finds she is pregnant.
Atticus goes to St. Louis to contact a relative and is told the Book of Names was
lost in the Tulsa race massacre of 1921. Hippolyta goes to the Winthrop observatory
and uses the key. Leti finds the orrery and tells Atticus where Hippolyta has gone.
Atticus saves Hippolyta from two of Lancaster's policemen, but in the struggle, a
portal to another dimension is opened. Atticus and Hippolyta both fall through.
Hippolyta discovers she has the power to be whoever she wants. She befriends
Josephine Baker in 1920s Paris, becomes a Dahomey Amazon, defeats a group of
Confederate soldiers and meets George again, finally embracing her true identity as
a "discoverer". Atticus returns from the other dimension.
8 "Jig-a-Bobo" Misha Green Misha Green and Ihuoma Ofordire October 4,
2020 0.627[14]
Atticus, Leti, Ruby, Montrose and Diana attend the memorial for Emmett Till (who
was a friend of Diana's). Diana is stopped by Lancaster who demands she give him
the orrery and when she refuses, he casts a spell that leads to two malevolent
spirits, Topsy and Bopsy, to haunt her. Atticus gives Christina the key to the
orrery/time machine in exchange for learning how to cast spells. Christina is
planning to sacrifice Atticus at the fall equinox to be immortal. Ruby grows closer
to Christina, but is hurt when she tells her that she does not care about Till's
lynching. Ji-Ah arrives in Chicago, causing Leti to become angry with Atticus.
Montrose and Atticus reconcile. Atticus says he visited the future while at the
Winthrop observatory and will have a son by Leti named George who will write the
book Lovecraft Country. Leti trades the negatives of her photos in exchange for
Christina casting a spell. Montrose and Atticus cast a spell to protect them, but
nothing happens. Two men kill Christina in the same manner as Till and dump her
corpse into Lake Michigan, but she revives. A suddenly more appreciative Ruby tells
Leti of her relationship with William / Christina. Diana is attacked by Topsy and
Bopsy and collapses. Lancaster attempts to enter Leti's house to find the orrery,
but when he cannot, he and his policemen shoot up the house. A policeman tries to
shoot Atticus, but a shoggoth appears who kills the policemen and tears off
Lancaster's arm. Leti observes that Atticus's spell worked after all.
9 "Rewind 1921" Jeffrey Nachmanoff Misha Green & Jonathan I. Kidd &
Sonya Winton-Odamtten October 11, 2020 0.671[15]
Hippolyta returns to Chicago to find Atticus, Leti and Montrose struggling to keep
Diana alive after her being cursed by Lancaster. Ruby summons Christina, who uses
Hippolyta's blood to "reset" the curse but warns that because Lancaster was the
only one who knew the curse, it cannot be fully lifted. Christina visits and taunts
a dying Lancaster and convinces Ruby to aid her in her quest for immortality, even
after Ruby learns that the spell will kill Tic. The others decide to use Hiram's
multiverse machine to travel back in time to 1921 Tulsa, where Tic's mother's
family held the Book of Names before it was destroyed in the Tulsa race massacre.
Upon arriving in 1921, Tic, Leti and Montrose witness a young Montrose being beaten
by his father. The adult Montrose flees. Tic goes looking for Montrose and finds
him watching his younger self rebuke a potential love interest of his (Thomas) due
to him struggling with internalized homophobia and the external oppression at the
time, before the pair of them, as well as young George and Dora, are set upon by a
white mob, who succeed in killing Thomas. Tic comes to everyone else's rescue. Leti
is saved from attackers by Tic's mother's family, who hide her in their house as it
is attacked by another mob, and Leti convinces Tic's great-grandmother to hand over
the Book of Names by promising to safeguard her family and their legacy. The trio
flee the burning city and return to 1955 through the portal.
10 "Full Circle" Nelson McCormick Misha Green
Story by : Misha Green & Ihuoma Ofordire October 18, 2020 0.881[16]
Letitia brings the book of names to the group. They open it and Tic and Letitia
collapse. They enter an ancestral realm that looks like Tic's Mother's home
surrounded by fire. Tic's Mother warns him he will have to be a hero and sacrifice
himself. They are able to lift Diana's curse but her arm remains withered. Tic and
Letitia go to Titus's vault and use the book of names to summon him. They take a
piece of his flesh to use in a spell to bind Christina. Tic meets with Ji-ah, he
apologizes and tells her he considers her family. Letitia asks Ruby to help them
get a piece of Christina's body for the spell. The group travel to Ardham to try
and stop Christina, enjoying a sing-a-long on the way. Christina's followers
surround Tic and strap him to an alter. Letitia and Ruby are preparing the spell
when Ruby is revealed to be Christina in disguise. They fight and Christina pushes
Letitia from a tower. Christina performs the ceremony, covering herself in Tic's
blood. Letitia tries to kill Christina to save him but thanks to the ceremony she
is now immortal. Letitia tries to cast the binding spell but without a piece of
Christina's body it doesn't work. Ji-Ah uses her tails to connect Tic and
Christina. The binding spell works and Christina is bound from ever performing
magic, along with all other white people. Tic dies from blood loss. In the final
scene, Diana, now with a mechanical arm courtesy of her mother, kills Christina by
crushing her throat.
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For other uses, see Lovecraft Country (disambiguation).

Lovecraft Country is a 2016 dark fantasy horror novel by Matt Ruff, exploring the
conjunction between the horror fiction of H. P. 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. It was published by HarperCollins.
Lovecraft Country
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Author
Matt Ruff
Cover artist
Jarrod Taylor
Country
United States
Language
English
Genre
Dark fantasy, horror
Publisher
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Publication date
2016
Media type
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Pages
400
ISBN
9780062292087
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The book consists of eight interconnected stories:

Lovecraft CountryEdit

Atticus 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).
Atticus, his uncle George, and his childhood friend Letitia drive to Ardham to find
Montrose. They are chased, accosted, and later nearly murdered by racists on the
way.

Once at Ardham they find a large manor house called Ardham Lodge. Atticus learns
that he is the descendant of the Lodge's founder, Titus Braithwhite. Montrose is
being held hostage, chained up in a basement. 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. Presumably this will
kill Atticus. Caleb Braithwhite (Samuel's only son) is also in attendance and he
secretly provides Atticus with an incantation to say during the ceremony. 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.

Caleb releases Atticus, George, Montrose and Letitia and lets them leave to go back
to Chicago.
Dreams of the Which HouseEdit

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. Letitia plans on fixing it up and renting out the rooms. 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. 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 that, they come to an agreement and even find some peace over their
shared love of playing games like chess. Letitia never sees Winthrop, but his
pieces move on their own.

Meanwhile the white folks in the neighborhood quickly begin harassing Letitia
because they don't want black people living there. They swear at her, vandalize the
car of one of her friends, threaten her, and throw manure at her front door. One
night, three young men break in with intentions to burn the house down. Winthrop's
ghost intervenes, and hauls the men down to the basement where they are locked in
terror until the police arrive.

Later, Atticus discovers that Caleb Braithwhite arranged for the sale of the house
to Letitia.
Abdullah's BookEdit

Caleb Braithwhite blackmails George and Montrose to break into the natural history
museum and retrieve a secret book, hidden behind magical incantations set to
protect it. They bring along two members of the Prince Hall Freemasons (a lodge
George and Montrose belong to) for help: Abdullah Muhammad and Pirate Joe, the
lodgemaster. Abdullah nearly dies in the attempt, but the men are able to retrieve
the book. Caleb honors his deal with the men. It's the "Book of Names", once owned
by Hiram Winthrop. He delivers to them the book he stole from them along with a
sizable amount of money.
Hippolyta Disturbs the UniverseEdit

Hippolyta, the wife of Uncle George, is traveling through Wisconsin doing research
for their travel guide and stops to explore an astronomical observatory that used
to be owned by Hiram Winthrop. She has always dreamed of being an astronomer, even
as a child. Using a code that she found in Winthrop’s house at house-warming party
through by Letitia, she accidentally opens a portal inside the observatory that
leads to another planet.

Hippolyta goes through the portal and begins to explore the other planet, finding a
woman named Ida living inside a small, gated cottage. Ida was a former maid of
Hiram Winthrop’s and he brought her and several other employees here years ago
after his son eloped with another maid named Pearl. Winthrop meant to scare the
employees into telling him where Pearl and his son were but before he could return
for them, he was killed by Samuel Braithwhite, and Ida, the last survivor, has been
trapped on this other planet for years.

Ida doesn’t believe that Winthrop’s power was ended by his death and she decides to
stay on the planet, giving Hippolyta a box containing a monster inside for her
journey back. Ida hopes the monster will kill Hippolyta once she is back on earth
so Ida’s location will continue to be a secret. Instead, the monster kills several
white men who are hassling Hippolyta as she tries to leave the observatory. When
Hippolyta arrives back in Chicago, she realizes a comic book that her son Horace
drew for her is not in the car anymore.
Jekyll in Hyde ParkEdit

Ruby (Letitia's sister) is approached by Caleb Braithwaite with a proposal. He

needs someone to do odd jobs for him and also keep an eye on The Winthrop House. In
return, he will give her a potion that will turn her into a beautiful red-haired
white woman for a period of time. Ruby tries this and discovers it is real. She
explores parts of Chicago as a white woman with freedom she never would have had as
a black woman. She agrees to work for Caleb in this fashion.

One of the jobs he has her do is attend a meeting of representatives of different

sorcerer lodges from around the country, in disguise as the red-head (whom Ruby has
named Hillary). There Caleb proposes to each lodge that they join forces, form a
sort of union between them, to share knowledge and help each other. When asked who
would lead this union, he suggests that they all meet back in Chicago in a few
months on Midsummer's Day for a contest. Whoever has the strongest alchemy to
display to the others, gets the title of their leader.

Later, Ruby discovers that the potion is being made from the blood of a woman in a
coma who Caleb keeps nearly frozen in a glass coffin in his basement. Ruby says she
wants nothing more to do with him, but cannot bring herself to leave. The story
ends with Caleb asking her to be sure of what she wants.
The Narrow HouseEdit

Caleb Braithwaite asks Atticus and Montrose to find Henry Winthrop, the son of
Hiram Winthrop. Henry took some of his father's books when he ran away, including
his notebooks, and Caleb wants them. Atticus and Montrose embark on a journey to
Aken, Illinois, where Henry is rumored to be. However, they soon find that since
Henry ran off with a black woman who used to work at his father's house, they were
both killed by a racist mob. At their house, Montrose meets the ghosts of Henry and
his wife's family, who relive the last day of their lives every day (including the
murder). Montrose finds Hiram's books, but decides to tell Caleb they found nothing
there. [1]
Horace and the Devil DollEdit

Cousin Horace makes an appearance in this chapter, after being approached by two
detectives and Captain Lancaster. A comic book he drew was found near Hiram
Winthrop's observatory, and they demand that Horace ask his mother Hippolyta about
it and report back to them. Horace refuses to cooperate, so Lancaster casts a spell
to prevent Horace from telling others about the situation, and to cause inanimate
objects to move. Soon enough, Horace begins to notice all kinds of cartoons and
photographs grinning at him, and a doll attacks him. Horace manages to use Scrabble
tiles to spell out to Ruby what happened, and Ruby tells Caleb. Caleb reverses the
curses, believing Lancaster thought Caleb ordered Hippolyta to snoop around the
observatory. He thinks that Lancaster tried to kill Horace to punish Hippolyta for
working with Caleb. Caleb devises a plan to kill Captain Lancaster. [1]
The Mark of CainEdit

Everyone gets together to share their stories about Caleb. Caleb has a plan to get
rid of Lancaster, but the family decides that they need to get rid of both of them.
They decide to pretend to go along with Caleb's plan, but ask Winthrop's ghost for
help. Caleb lures Lancaster into a room where a monster swallows him whole, then
Atticus uses magic to alter Caleb's Mark of Cain. The mark prevents Caleb from
entering certain places and from doing magic. They toss him into their truck, drop
him off in Indiana, and drive away. [1]
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