Kickstarting a comic about HP Lovecraft's world


Craig Engler writes, "It's a dirty, gritty story about magick, monsters and the occult. It takes place in a modern-day world where H.P. Lovecraft the writer never existed but where all the horrors he wrote about are real. In this story, the man named Lovecraft is the world's foremost magician and alchemist who maintains a secret library of forbidden knowledge which includes books like the Necronomicon.

$10 gets you the 48-page PDF; $15 gets you a hardcopy and the PDF.

Lovecraft is a classic Byronic antihero: 'Mad, bad, and dangerous to know.' He functions as the semi-reluctant guardian of mankind, one of the few who can traffic with occult forces without becoming (totally) corrupted by them. In his world, magicians are a secret culture within the culture who vie for power and knowledge, leading to feuds and wars that can unleash unspeakable terrors. When they do, Lovecraft is the guy who cleans things up.

Lovecraft: The Blasphemously Large First Issue