Darkly Haunting (Haunter of the Dark - John Coulthart)

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Product:	Haunter of the Dark - John Coulthart
Date:	15/06/00 (71 review reads)
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Advantages: Lovecraft stripped of the junk.

Disadvantages: Alan Moore's words don't match John Coulthard's pictures, for me.

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 beautiful too, with the phantasmagoric kaleidoscopes of the invocations almost seeming to perform themselves as you turn the pages. The invocations close the first, longer section of the book; the second, concluding section takes Lovecraftian themes and imagery beyond the gates of the Auschwitz extermination camp with the harrowing art Coulthard created for the Lord Horror comics of Savoy.
You won't want to linger here: this is Lovecraft stripped of beauty and wonder and set against industrial shitscapes of mass-murder, despair, and mischief-joy. Elsewhere, in the sections directly inspired by Lovecraft, you'll linger knowing that you'll return again and again. If there's a better artistic interpretation of Lovecraft I would like to see it, but I don't think there is or that anyone could surpass this but Coulthard himself.

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