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Graphic Books September 2009


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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
--H.P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

Introduction

H.P. Lovecraft is considered one of the masters of horror, and it is no wonder with his complex mythos and detailed imagery that comic book writers and artists turn to him for inspiration. This issue is devoted to both Lovecraft and the people who love him.

Lovecraft not scary enough for you? Then why not dabble in a few retellings of some true crimes.

Keep the light on. R'lyeh!

Cthulhu, Why Don't You Call Anymore?

H. P. Lovecraft's Haunt of Horror by Richard Corben is not currently available at Houston Public Library, but you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service.  Select the "Check Library Catalog" link to search for this title in WorldCat; you will need your library card to access this database.
For further assistance with Interlibrary Loan, please call 832-393-1313.


H. P. Lovecraft's Haunt of Horror - by Richard Corben
Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/2008
 ISBN-13: 9780785132875
 ISBN-10: 0785132872
Horror comics legend Richard Corben presents a series of eerie new spins on the poems and short stories of H.P. Lovecraft. Each adaptation is beautifully rendered in black and white with gray tones as only Corben can do it - along with a printing of the original source text by H.P. Lovecraft.

Locke & Key 1: Welcome to Lovecraft - by Joe Hill
Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/2008
 ISBN-13: 9781600102370
 ISBN-10: 1600102379
Presents the story of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them--and home to a hate-filled creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.
 

The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Grotesque Visions by H.P. Lovecraft is not currently available at Houston Public Library, but you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service.  Select the "Check Library Catalog" link to search for this title in WorldCat; you will need your library card to access this database.
For further assistance with Interlibrary Loan, please call 832-393-1313.


The Haunter of the Dark: And Other Grotesque Visions - by H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher: Scb Distributors
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 11/2006
 ISBN-13: 9781902197234
 ISBN-10: 1902197232
Presents a modern interpretation of some of Lovecraft's best works, in a graphic novel version that features stories of occult and cosmic terror from the most influential horror writer of the twentieth century.
 

Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths by Alan Moore is not currently available at Houston Public Library, but you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service.  Select the "Check Library Catalog" link to search for this title in WorldCat; you will need your library card to access this database.
For further assistance with Interlibrary Loan, please call 832-393-1313.


Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths - by Alan Moore
Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/2007
 ISBN-13: 9781592910267
 ISBN-10: 1592910262
Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths features tons of Alan's classic short sequential comic book stories that have been long out of print, stories that have never before been seen and special developmental sections with original script pages and comments from Alan and the creators. This massive volume also has an extensive interview with Moore as he discusses Yuggoth Cultures, the stories inside and some of the amazing tales the lead to their creation as well as the real magic behind the works. As if that wasn't enough, Antony Johnston's work inspired by Yuggoth Cultures and the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft is included and features all-star art by Juan Jose Ryp, Jacen Burrows, Dheeraj Verma and many more along with copious notes on the Lovecraftian origins of the tales.

Fall of Cthulhu: The Fugue - by Michael Alan Nelson
Publisher: Boom! Studios
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 04/2008
 ISBN-13: 9781934506196
 ISBN-10: 1934506192
After the sudden suicide of his uncle in front of him and his fiancée, Cy searches for the motive behind it in an alternate realm called the Dreamlands.
 

H.P. Lovecraft by Tom Pomplun is not currently available at Houston Public Library, but you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service.  Select the "Check Library Catalog" link to search for this title in WorldCat; you will need your library card to access this database.
For further assistance with Interlibrary Loan, please call 832-393-1313.


H.P. Lovecraft - by Tom Pomplun
Publisher: Eureka Productions
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/2007
 ISBN-13: 9780974664897
 ISBN-10: 0974664898
Eight tales by the master of horror and the supernatural are presented in an illustrated format by prominent artists working in the fields of comics, book illustration, and fine arts.

Lovecraft - by Hans Rodionoff
Publisher: DC Comics
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 03/2004
 ISBN-13: 9781401201104
 ISBN-10: 1401201105
A fascinating but disturbing study of one of America's greatest horror writers, this is an intense examination of the bizarre life of author and recluse, Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Since his early childhood in the late 1800's Lovecraft was haunted with dark visions of demons and death. Trapped in a world of macabre creatures and grotesque thoughts, the writer found escape only by weaving his living nightmares into fictional blood curling horror stones. An uncensored tour into a troubled mind, this beautifully painted hardcover edition traces the toils of a man considered both mentally ill and genius as he stumbles across the fine line between reality and insanity
 

Arkham Woods 1 by Christopher Rowley is not currently available at Houston Public Library, but you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service.  Select the "Check Library Catalog" link to search for this title in WorldCat; you will need your library card to access this database.
For further assistance with Interlibrary Loan, please call 832-393-1313.


Arkham Woods 1 - by Christopher Rowley
Publisher: Seven Seas Entertainment LLC
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/2009
 ISBN-13: 9781934876367
 ISBN-10: 1934876364
In the New England town of Arkham Woods, Kirsti and her mother, Victoria, are tasked with clearing out and selling the old house left to them by Silas Scadmore, Victoria's recently deceased eccentric uncle, and in the basement of the house, Kirsti and her friends unwittingly unleash an ancient evil that could spell the end of the world.
 

Cthulhu Tales 1 by Various is not currently available at Houston Public Library, but you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service.  Select the "Check Library Catalog" link to search for this title in WorldCat; you will need your library card to access this database.
For further assistance with Interlibrary Loan, please call 832-393-1313.


Cthulhu Tales 1 - by Various
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 09/2008
 ISBN-13: 9781934506158
 ISBN-10: 193450615X
A fun, wild, inventive, and often scary anthology horror series, Cthulhu Tales takes the familiar literary tradition of the Lovecraft-influenced short story and introduces it to comics. These terrifying tales are written by today's hottest writers. Featuring the most brilliant roster of artists compiled anywhere, Cthulhu Tales is a primal journey into a dark arena of horror. 
Truth Is Scarier Than Fiction
 

Torso: A True Crime Graphic Novel by Brian Michael Bendis is not currently available at Houston Public Library, but you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service.  Select the "Check Library Catalog" link to search for this title in WorldCat; you will need your library card to access this database.
For further assistance with Interlibrary Loan, please call 832-393-1313.


Torso: A True Crime Graphic Novel - by Brian Michael Bendis
Publisher: Diamond Comic Distributors
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/2001
 ISBN-13: 9781582406978
 ISBN-10: 1582406979
Cleveland. 1935. Eliot Ness, fresh from his legendary Chicago triumph oer Al Capone and associcates, se his sights on Cleveland. He went on a creusade that matched, and sometimes even surpassed, his past accomplishments. But dismembered body parts started washing up in a concentrated area of Lake Erie Sound. Headless torsos that left no clues to their identity or reason for death. As far as the public was concerned, he was never captured. But what really happened is even more shocking. This award winning series is finally collected into this handsome edition. Also included is material never seen before and a photo essay of the actual murders.
 

Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 by Rick Geary is not currently available at Houston Public Library, but you may request it through our free Interlibrary Loan service.  Select the "Check Library Catalog" link to search for this title in WorldCat; you will need your library card to access this database.
For further assistance with Interlibrary Loan, please call 832-393-1313.


Jack the Ripper: A Journal of the Whitechapel Murders 1888-1889 - by Rick Geary
Publisher: Nbm Pub Co
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 06/2001
 ISBN-13: 9781561633081
 ISBN-10: 1561633089
Rendering the belching chimneys, puzzled bobbies and bewhiskered worthies of Victorian London in brooding b&w panels, Geary revisits the legend of Jack the Ripper in this stylish graphical novel. On the one hand, this is a 19th-century police procedural: in examining the brutal murders of five prostitutes in London's Whitechapel district in 1888, Geary recreates the scene of each gruesomely surgical murder, annotating the evidence, the forensic procedures of the time and the eerily conflicting testimony of witnesses. On the other hand, it's a deadpan pulp narrative in the form of a trade comic book in which Geary's haunting drawings unite seamlessly with his moody, well-researched text.

The Saga of the Bloody Benders: The Infamous Homicidal Family of Labette County, Kansas - by Rick Geary
Publisher: NBM/ComicsLit
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/2008
 ISBN-13: 9781561634996
 ISBN-10: 1561634999
 In graphic novel format, tells the story of a family of serial killers who owned a small general store and inn in Labette County, Kansas, from 1872 to 1873.

From Hell: Being a Melodrama in Sixteen Parts - by Alan Moore
Publisher: Top Shelf Productions
 Check Library Catalog Pub Date: 02/2000
 ISBN-13: 9780958578349
 ISBN-10: 0958578346
Alan Moore did a couple of Ph.D.'s worth of research into the Whitechapel murders for this copiously annotated collection of the independently published series. The web of facts, opinion, hearsay, and imaginative invention draws the reader in from the first page. Eddie Campbell's scratchy ink drawings evoke a dark and dirty Victorian London and help to humanize characters that have been caricatured into obscurity for decades. Moore, having decided that the evidence best fits the theory of a Masonic conspiracy to cover up a scandal involving Victoria's grandson, goes to work telling the story with relish from the point of view of the victims, the chief inspector, and the killer--the Queen's physician. Maps, characters, and settings are all as accurate as possible, and while the reader might not ultimately agree with Moore and Campbell's thesis, From Hell is still a great work of literature.
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