Haunter of the Dark - John Coulthart

This is one of the best books I’ve seen in years. John Coulthart’s work will be familiar to many from his Lord Horror work, some of which is reproduced here, explicitly presented as a conflation of Holocaust architecture and Lovecraftian mythos. The other material includes three heavily illustrated (ie: comic format, although the term seems limiting for work of this calibre) interpretations of Lovecraft stories – The Haunter of the Dark, The Call of Cthulhu and The Dunwich Horror – and a set of illustrations of the Old Ones, with evocations by Alan Moore. The collection as a whole has an intensity that lifts it far from its relatively pulpy ...  Read the complete review

Think "H.P. Lovecraft" and you think "horror". This book will teach you that you should think "beauty" as well. The Manchester artist John Coulthard has been working on comic-strip adaptations, paintings, and drawings inspired by Lovecraft's words for more than a decade now, and *Haunter of the Dark* finally collects the lot in one volume, all the way from 1986's "The Haunter of the Dark" adaptation to the newly created Ten Qabalistic invocations of the Lovecraftian deities, with accompanying text by Alan Moore. Open *Haunter of the Dark* anywhere and you'll find something darkly disturbing and often darkly ...  Read the complete review