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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''.

The young Lovecraft quickly discovers that the verses in the book, when read out loud, opens a portal to a dark, twisted version of Massachusetts, where the horrible city Arkham, populated by all sorts of weird, and sometimes malevolent, creatures, lies. He starts playing regular visits to this other dimension, but soon discovers that some of the strange beings starts following him into the real world, where they haunt and torment him, demanding that he surrenders the ''Necronomicon'' to them, so they can bring the barrier between the dimensions down, and take over the mundane world. Then again, it could all just be the escapist fantasies of lonely young writer who had clinically insane parents, and a pretty screwed-up childhood.

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* [[Art Shift]]: Panels in the "real" world and those when the alien reality of the Old Ones is dominant are made in two noticeably different styles, despite Breccia doing both.

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