Lovecraft Country
Twelve seconds — a card, a horn stab, and straight into an episode that will not be the same genre as the last one.
No single version of the Lovecraft Country titles stands for the rest, so the clip here collects them together across season 1.
It arrived on HBO in 2020, when Curb Your Enthusiasm, In Treatment and The Jinx were also on the network.
The opening titles
Season 1
36sAntibody's own compilation of the episode-specific versions, which replaced a single-episode clip here. The twelve-second card is not the whole story — Ken Taylor illustrated a different creature for each episode, and the set only reads as a set when the versions run together.
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