A couple of delightful time-twirlings caught my eye today.

Christina Hess Illustration imagines a domestic time-travelling Lovecraft in England with a loving Jane Austen, and morning tea served by a tame tentacular beastie. Presumably that’ll be the ‘Jane Austen and zombies’ Jane. And Lovecraft is definitely developing an ‘Innsmouth look’.

Fantasy map-maker Robert Albauer mashes Lovecraft’s monsters with the medieval Crusades. Hmmm, yes… I can see a fruitful mash-up of R.E. Howard’s Crusader stories with the Cthulhu Mythos, if that hasn’t already been done. (Update: yes it’s been done, Simak did something similar in his LOTR-Lovecraft mash-up novel Where Evil Dwells (1982). More recently there was a Dark Ages + aliens mini-series of comic books).