Category Archives: Lovecraftian arts

Gage Prentiss bust

04 Monday Nov 2019

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Recently up for sale at The H. P. Lovecraft Historical Society, and sold, a Lovecraft Bust.

Gage Prentiss, the celebrated weird sculptor of Providence, has sculpted a life-sized statue of HPL which hopefully will soon have a permanent home in Providence. This bust of HPL is a replica of the full sized one, but at 10 inches by 5 inches, it’s much easier to ship and put on display in your home. It’s a tasteful and fitting tribute to the master of weird fiction.

Very appealing, and it definitely seems to evoke the dreamier side of Lovecraft.

Free book cover

29 Tuesday Oct 2019

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A few months back I spotted public domain scan on Archive.org, and realised that it could be re-purposed as a free book cover. I Photoshopped the text away, cleaned just a little, and made some small tweaks. I’ve just found it again, and this was the result…

Specifically, it made me imagine a book featuring a mystery-adventure with H.P. Lovecraft (left), Robert E. Howard (centre) and Frank Belknap Long (right) as the protagonists. Feel free to use this bit of inadvertent Lovecraftian art (1926 from Barcelona, Spain, originally) for the cover of such a lengthy tale, with the addition of suitable typography of the era.

I initially imagined such a tale set in New York City, but looking at it now… the desert-night colouration and faint hint of a pyramid-like mound in the background could suggest Lovecraft and Long making a long-distance visit to R.E. Howard in Texas, en route to a cruise across the Gulf of Mexico and a tour of the ruined temples of central America. Such an ambitious trip could be deemed to have been ‘financed by Long, who had come into a small family legacy’ etc.

Into The Weird

14 Monday Oct 2019

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Into The Weird, Episode 13. Continuing their mini-series of two-hour podcasts which discuss certain ‘weird’ issues of Marvel’s Bronze Age comic books in depth. This episode, another dive into…

Doctor Strange goodness with Marvel Premiere #7 and 8, where Stephen wades through yet another host of Lovecraftian foes.

Marvel Premiere was a relatively innovative (for 1970s Marvel) ‘try-out’ title which featured among others Starlin’s Warlock, Woodgod, Chaykin’s Starstalker, Solomon Kane, and Ploog’s Weirdworld.

“Herbert West” as a BD

09 Wednesday Oct 2019

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A French BD* adaptation of Lovecraft’s Home Brew shocker “Herbert West” by David Peeters. The book appears to have been released spring 2019 after a successful Kickstarter, and is now listed as sold out. Here’s a look at the black-and-white edition.

* BD = French shorthand term for a long comic-book, usually with a complete story, in their A4 ‘album’ format of at least 64 pages (sometimes 72 inc. cover).

The Dunwich Orchestra

07 Monday Oct 2019

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In Germany…

Comic strip artist and illustrator Andreas Hartung from Berlin and The Dunwich Orchestra are adapting H.P. Lovecraft’s classic weird-fiction story “The Color from Space” as a dark, episodic multimedia picture show with an atmospheric live soundtrack and a matching stage show.

The “Lovecraft as a multimedia picture show” article runs through Google Translate fine, and the foot of the article has links to two YouTube videos of part of the show.

Spreading the word to mystery buffs, 1966

06 Sunday Oct 2019

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It wasn’t just wall-to-wall hippies, back in 1966. Here we see evidence for the spreading of the word about Lovecraft to mystery buffs, via the Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine (March 1966). One assumes that “The Festival” was provided for free by Derleth, in exchange for the intro blurb which strongly puffs the three Arkham House volumes of Lovecraft.