Todd Theyer is gearing up to Kickstart a printed Lovecraftian bundle of his own letter-pressed goodness, to be named “Lovecraft’s Journal”. It will evoke and hint at the progress of a scientific expedition to the maddening wilds of Siberia, via a field journal complete with maps, field drawings, newspapers cuttings and suchlike story-props. The project is planning its launch to align with the timing of NeconomiCon 2019, but you can follow the previews on Instagram.

Necronomicon Press now has a reprint of Lovecraft’s “The Lurking Fear” in something close to its original Home Brew magazine serial format from 1923. For this edition Robert H. Knox has revivified the illustrations done by Clark Ashton Smith, although the colourizing seems to me to be a bit too garish for the tone of the story. Still, for collectors of Smith’s art this will probably be rather desirable.

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.

Here’s a glimpse of the style of the manga-style comics adaptation of The Shadow Out of Time adaptation, recently completed by Gou Tanabe in Japan. This book is apparently getting manga fans excited, and he’s said to have a cult following. Personally it’s not an art style I greatly appreciate, but it’s good to get a full-length adaptation of this major story.

A while back I noted a 10,000-word survey of Lovecraft RPG publishing in 2018, which at that point was about to move on to a series of articles scrutinising individual titles.

Now there’s a final part, Cthulhu in 2018: A Retrospective, part 5. In the first section this looks at 2018 Kickstarter campaigns that have yet to ship, and then concludes with a general “Trends, Observations and Conclusions” section. The latter is a useful addition to the articles I linked to in my earlier post.

This looks rather good, if only for the Ian Bertram art. The collected six-issue run of “House of Penance”. Tells the…

true story of the Winchester haunted house and one woman’s mission to wash away the blood curse … With an added horror element right out of H.P. Lovecraft. Collects the six-issue miniseries.

176 pages as a modestly priced Kindle ebook.