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''Lovecraft'' is a [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]] comic retelling of [[ |
''Lovecraft'' is a [[Very Loosely Based on a True Story]] comic retelling of [[H.P. Lovecraft]]'s life, suggesting that the famous writer's horror stories was not simply a product of his imagination. Originally conceived as a film-script by Hans Rodionoff, it was turned into a comic book with help from [[DC Comics]] veteran Keith Giffen and arist Enrique Breccia. |
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Howard Phillips Lovecraft has a very bizarre childhood in. His father, Winfield, becomes acutely psychotic, when the boy is three years old, and is confined to an asylum, where he keeps blabbing about a book that needs to be burned. Meanwhile, his mother dresses him up in girl's clothing and homeschools him, all contributing to keeping him very isolated from the outside world. His only means of entertainment is his grandfather's ghost-stories, as well as his father's quite comprehensive library, and it is in the latter that he discovers the ancient and very strange book, ''Al Azif'', by Abdul Alhazred, also more popularly known as the ''Necronomicon''. |
Howard Phillips Lovecraft has a very bizarre childhood in. His father, Winfield, becomes acutely psychotic, when the boy is three years old, and is confined to an asylum, where he keeps blabbing about a book that needs to be burned. Meanwhile, his mother dresses him up in girl's clothing and homeschools him, all contributing to keeping him very isolated from the outside world. His only means of entertainment is his grandfather's ghost-stories, as well as his father's quite comprehensive library, and it is in the latter that he discovers the ancient and very strange book, ''Al Azif'', by Abdul Alhazred, also more popularly known as the ''Necronomicon''. |
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