Lovecraft excels at building atmosphere, world building, and a kind of decrepit, grouchy charm that equal parts endearing and exasperating. But let’s be honest, he’s got a hell of a lot of duds. Yes, he has his gems, his lightning in a bottle stories that captured the horror that lies at heart of awe: A Shadow Over Innsmouth, The Color Out of Space, etc. His sense of pace is nearly non-existent, his pages are full of dense exposition and asides, and the themes are pretty repetitive. Lovecraft’s The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath unlike anything you’ve read before.īefore going further, let us drop a (perhaps?) hot take: most Lovecraft stories are kinda bad. What are the reasons to keep going when everything around us is terrifying and lethal? Kadath may offer some answers to this question! An adaptation of H.P. Carter walks through a world full of threats and abominable monsters, but also of palaces, exuberant cities, and geographies that remind man of his insignificant role on the gigantic cosmic chessboard. Randolph Carter, a traveler to dreamland, tries not to wake up before reaching his goal, the elusive Kadath: the home of the gods, a place of fantasy and overflowing imagination. Illustrated by Guillermo Sanna and Jacques Salomon While relative simple, “Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath” #1 is eye candy with maximalist intentions, which makes for a fun read. With that in mind, “Lovecraft: Unknown Kadath” #1 from Ablaze Comics reinterprets one of Lovecraft’s more obscure (yet still relevant) unpublished novellas. While he’s been far from rehabilitated, the general consensus is that with the man long dead and his work in the public domain, it’s fair game to explore his work, invent new stories based on his vast lore, and tap into the ineffable horrors he delved with out own senses of purpose. Driven by an odd mix of introversion and xenophobic tendencies, Lovecraft filled his stories with monsters, that in retrospect, were veiled caricatures of the his non-white neighbors.

He was prolific, paranoid, and unsavory in his beliefs. Since his prolific career began about a century ago, Lovecraft has ushered hundreds, thousands, and millions into the halls of weird fiction, horror, twisted fantasy, and science fiction. Picking up a dusty tome of HP Lovecraft fiction from the used bookstore, or flipping through the pages of some impenetrable compendium of his at the local library is a veritable rite of passage into weird geekdom.

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