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The first teaser for the HBO series Lovecraft Country has arrived, which will premiere on the channel in August.

The raw material was provided by Matt Ruff’s novel of the same title, and yes, the title is quite revealing, his world is as if the racist America of the fifties was mixed with H.P. With Lovecraft’s hidden horror.

The story is about a young boy (Jonathan Majors) who sets out to find his missing father (played by Wire’s Michael K. Williams) and also his uncle (Courtney B. Vance) and a girlfriend (Jurnee Smollett-Bell) to this adventure. connected. The only problem is that his beloved father has disappeared in the title country, where only institutionalized and unpunished racism makes the monsters hiding in the forest and the cultists who control them more dangerous.

The producers of the series include Jordan Peele (Disappear !, We) and JJ Abrams (Lost, Star Wars).

Lovecraft Country hits HBO sometime in August.