• 25:12 - 28:23
Peter Levenda | Lovecraft, The Yazidi, & Middle Eastern Magic
Gregory Angell and the Yazidi Massacre in Mosul
The protagonist of The Lovecraft Code, Gregory Angell, is a professor of religion and linguist who witnesses a real-life massacre of 23 Yazidis in Mosul during the Iraq War. This event shatters his faith and leads him into a clandestine world of intelligence agencies investigating a new, blasphemous terror group. The narrative uses these historical dates and places to explore the idea of a threat potentially worse than the Islamic State.