What if the most terrifying thing in a horror story isn't the monster, it's the history? That's the central question driving two of the most important horror TV series in recent memory: Lovecraft Country and Them. Both shows use the language of genre horror, supernatural threats, creeping dread, visceral violence, to excavate real historical atrocities that mainstream culture has long tried to bury. At the heart of Lovecraft Country is an event that almost didn't survive Ame