English
Lovecraft Country
From Lovecraft + country.
A compound of Lovecraft + country
Proto-Italic *komteros ‘the other of the two who meet, opposite’
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Latin contrā ‘against’
Vulgar Latin *(terra) contrāta ‘facing land’
Old French contree ‘country’
Middle English contre ‘a region’
English country
The story
Coined by Keith Herber, later used and popularized by the role-playing games publisher Chaosium.
Today it means
name The fictionalized universe populated by the supernatural beings of H.P. Lovecraft's horror fiction and that of other authors inspired by Lovecraft's works, especially the fictionalized version of New England.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Lovecraft Country