I'm trying to read more graphic novels this year. To that end I dropped a truly frightening amount of money at Excelsior Comics over the last month ( Read more... )

61. Carter and Lovecraft by Jonathan L HowardDisclaimer: I vaguely know the author. He's local and I have spent a couple evenings in the pub in his company ( Read more... )

35. The Damned Highway: Fear and Loathing in Arkham by Brian Keene and Nick Mamatas

HP Lovecraft meets Hunter S Thompson. HST goes in search of the American Nightmare during the 1972 US election campaign - if Nixon can sweep all 50 states, Cthulu will rise.

They do a plausible approximation of HST's voice (I think, but I've only read Fear and ( Read more... )

75. New Cthulu: The Recent Weird edited by Paula GuranA collection of short stories all based somehow in HP Lovecraft's universe that have been published since 2000. Amazingly, even though it contains stories by a lot of authors I read, the only one I'd read before was the Neil Gaiman one (A Study in Emerald ( Read more... )

7. HP Lovecraft Omnibus 1: At the Mountains of Madness and other Novels of TerrorConsisting of Lovecraft's novel-ish length works - At the Mountains of Madness, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, The Dreams in the Witch-House, and The Dream-quest of Unknown Kadath, with the rest of the Randolph Carter stores thrown in ( Read more... )

61. The House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson

This is an early horror/sci-fi novel that I've been meaning to read for years.  It's probably best known as having exerted a big influence on HP Lovecraft.

The first half of this is one of the best, scariest passages in the world.  Ever.  (And extremely reminiscent of Lovecraft - lots of ( Read more... )