A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft (First Standard Edition)

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LOVECRAFT, H. P. (ed. Jerad Walters; preface Stuart Gordon; intro. Harlan Ellison; afterword Thomas Ligotti; artists H.R. Giger, Michael Whelan, Lee Brown Coye, Virgil Finlay, Gahan Wilson, John Coulthart, Ian Miller, Bob Eggleton, Mike Mignola, J.K. Potter, John Jude Palencar, and others). A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft. Lakewood, Colorado: Centipede Press, 2008. Large Folio (30.5 × 39 cm). Full black cloth. Cover decorated with tentacle pattern in blind; gilt titling to cover and spine. Pictorial dustjacket. Black cloth slipcase. Two silk ribbon markers (black and yellow). 400 pp. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout; numerous multi-page fold-outs, including Michael Whelan's Lovecraft Diptych, here approximately four feet wide. Profusely illustrated with over forty artists' work spanning eight decades of Lovecraftian art. Over 20,000 words of original essays. Standard slipcase edition. Published October 2008. Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890–1937) was born in Providence, Rhode Island, published almost exclusively in pulp magazines, never achieved commercial success during his lifetime, and died at forty-six in poverty. His reputation has been assembled entirely posthumously. He is now regarded as the most influential writer of weird fiction of the twentieth century — the architect of a mythology of cosmic horror whose central proposition is that the universe is incomprehensibly vast, utterly indifferent to humanity, and inhabited

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