British comedy writer Ben Clark’s The Spine Chillers is a short graphic novel that treats readers to yet another fictional Lovecraft. Only just released, it’s getting good reviews which say it’s a laugh-out-loud comedy.

The set-up is that H.P. Lovecraft lives in a grotty boarding-house with Edgar Allen Poe and Ambrose Bierce. Something is hiding in the attic. Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes) turns up to investigate. Sadly the art is in child-o-vision. Which won’t entice many to part with a hefty £14 for it in paper, but apparently the writing is brilliant. One suspects that it’s a little bit more of a pitch for a TV series or movie than it is a graphic novel. Still, it’s another in the small crop of recent graphic novels featuring Lovecraft as a character.