H.P. Lovecraft

THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL FEATURES AN ALL-NEW AUTHORIZED ADAPTATION OF H.P. LOVECRAFT'S GREATEST WEIRD TALE BY STEVEN PHILIP JONES (LOVECRAFT'S WORLDS, LOVECRAFTIAN) AND TREY BALDWIN (SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH, LADIES OF MARKET STREET); LOVECRAFT'S CLASSIC SHORT STORY; JONES' ARTICLES ON "CALL OF CTHULHU" AND ON ADAPTING LOVECRAFT INTO THE COMICS MEDIUM; AND A LOVECRAFT BIOGRAPHY. Something strange is going on in the deepest shadows of the world. It started when the earth was born. One day it will raze mankind. Until then it must remain a secret...A most terribly protected secret. Professor George Angell spent decades researching the time-scattered clues of a mysterious cult. Then...suddenly... Angell died. Or was he killed? Francis Thurston insists on finding out what really happened to his uncle and believes Angell's research is the key to the truth: a loathsome, abominable secret that has driven the few men who have learned it to madness or suicide. But insanity and death pale to the ravening eons-old horror waiting patiently to be released upon humanity. "It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway! A mountain walked or stumbled!" - H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

THIS GRAPHIC NOVEL FEATURES AN ALL-NEW AUTHORIZED ADAPTATION OF H.P. LOVECRAFT'S GREATEST WEIRD TALE BY STEVEN PHILIP JONES (LOVECRAFT'S WORLDS, LOVECRAFTIAN) AND TREY BALDWIN (SHADOW OVER INNSMOUTH, LADIES OF MARKET STREET); LOVECRAFT'S CLASSIC SHORT STORY; JONES' ARTICLES ON "CALL OF CTHULHU" AND ON ADAPTING LOVECRAFT INTO THE COMICS MEDIUM; AND A LOVECRAFT BIOGRAPHY. Something strange is going on in the deepest shadows of the world. It started when the earth was born. One day it will raze mankind. Until then it must remain a secret...A most terribly protected secret. Professor George Angell spent decades researching the time-scattered clues of a mysterious cult. Then...suddenly... Angell died. Or was he killed? Francis Thurston insists on finding out what really happened to his uncle and believes Angell's research is the key to the truth: a loathsome, abominable secret that has driven the few men who have learned it to madness or suicide. But insanity and death pale to the ravening eons-old horror waiting patiently to be released upon humanity. "It lumbered slobberingly into sight and gropingly squeezed Its gelatinous green immensity through the black doorway! A mountain walked or stumbled!" - H. P. Lovecraft, The Call of Cthulhu

En hyldest til H.P. Lovecrafts mørke mytologi I dette tidlige og fremsynede værk fra 1991, som Houllebecq kalder for sin første roman, leverer Houellebecq en skarp og fascinerende introduktion til den store gyserforfatter H.P. Lovecraft, som han ikke tøver med at kalde for det 20 århundredes største forfatter. Houellebecq analyserer og dissekerer Lovecrafts liv, levned og litteratur, mens han spejler sig i den afdøde forfatter og hans misantropiske livssyn. Bogen bliver således ikke bare en særdeles skarp og velskrevet hyldest til Lovecrafts unikke forfatterskab, men også en poetik for det forfatterskab som den dengang unge, vilde og ambitiøse Houellebecq selv skulle til at udfolde. Bogen er forsynet med et introducerende forord af Stephen King.