New in October 2017, and seemingly not yet noticed outside France, the book Lovecraft au prisme de l’image: litterature, cinema et arts graphiques [Lovecraft in the prism of the image: literature, cinema and the graphic arts] (Green Face, 2017). Green Face is a well-regarded and genuine small press, and their book has sixteen essays on Lovecraft’s visual afterlives among makers of pictures, movies, comics and more.

Translation of some of the essay titles:

PICTURES:

“New notes – distance: 1995-2012 – on the poetics of excess at Lovecraft and its graphic solutions”.

“The textual and pictorial fables in At the Mountains of Madness: a genealogical approach to the Lovecraft novella”.

“”The strange and disturbing paintings by Nicholas Roerich”: the pictorial referent and his functions in At the Mountains of Madness“.

“Lovecraft, painter of the unthinkable”.

“The image and Lovecraft”.

CINEMA:

“H.P. Lovecraft as outsider cinema – what changes?”

“The Truth About The Charles Dexter Ward Case: Fright and Excess in The Haunted Palace (Roger Corman, 1963) and The Resurrected (Dan O’Bannon, 1991)”.

“Lovecraft on screen: adaptations, tributes, rewrites”.

“Presences of the unspeakable: found footage and poetics Lovecraftienne“.

COMICS:

“Neonomicon: monstrosity and adaptation after Howard Phillips Lovecraft”. [Alan Moore]

“Lovecraft in the colors of nightmare: a study of Alberto Breccia”.

TRANSMEDIA:

“Adaptation and Transmediality: Kadath, the Unknown City“.

“Howard Phillips Lovecraft: God of Modern Popular Culture”.

“Brett Rutherford’s Night Gaunts: Between Illustration and (Re) Creation”.

“The Necronomicons of H.R. Giger”.