Ripeto...
... non evocate nessuna entita'
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Tzava'at Harivash 118

For every letter is a complete
world. Thus when you say the word with great hitkashrut,
surely you bestir those supernal worlds and thereby achieve
great effects.
( )

Terrific introduction to Lovecraft. Be sure to read H.P.'s original stories afterward.
Contents: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath; The Case of Charles Dexter Ward; At the Mountains of Madness; The Shadow Out of Time

Great graphic adaptations of four of H.P. Lovecraft's longer novellas: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath, The Case of Charles Dexter Ward, At the Mountains of Madness and The Shadow Out of Time -- all but one ('Charles Dexter Ward') favourites of mine too. INJ Culbard's spare style works well to make these works accessible, while preserving much of the original texts. Culbard makes great use of darkness in his panels, to give the sense of a torchlight swallowed in cyclopean gloom, or to show stars or the moon, or the face of Nyarlathotep.

I had read the latter two adaptations separately before, but I was delighted to find that INJ Culbard had illustrated 'Dream Quest' and 'Charles Dexter Ward', each of which has come out well, though maybe with a touch less attention to detail than the previously-published two.

Wishlist: An adaptation of The Haunter of the Dark would have perfected this collection.

Opening and closing the collection with 'Dream Quest' and 'The Shadow Out of Time' reminded me of the parallels between those two -- a man in each driven to explore his tantalising and terrible dreams to the utmost. ( )