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The best Lovecraftian story I've ever read, bar none. And that's counting the stuff written by Lovecraft himself. Fair warning though: It's dark. But, y'know, Lovecraft. You shouldn't be surprised by that. You can't complain if the Lovecraft story you read make you a little cringy, then sticks around in your head when you're trying to sleep that night. It's like chewing up some glass and then complaining that it's sharp. Of course it's fucking sharp. You're eating glass. Welcome to the bleak exi...
A Lovecraftian short comic by Alan Moore, based on one of his own short stories published in a Lovecraft horror-themed anthology. For a fuller treatment and some background read Sam Quixote's review here. (Almost always do that, except when I violently disagree with him, which happens). I read this because another Sam told me in his review of Providence that this story worked as a kind of prequel to Moore's also Lovecraftian Providence that is just now coming out, which I started to read. The Co...
A slight adaptation of a 90s Moore short story which somehow became the foundation of one of his longest sustained works - 18 issues of this, tentacle-rape schlockfest Neonomicon, and the more thoughtful and unsettling (or boring and inconclusive, according to taste) Providence. I really enjoyed Providence, and since parts of the ending to that pick up on plot elements here, you do probably need to read The Courtyard if you're tackling that.But.... on it's own, it's not all that good. It reads a...
short and sweet. Would be better presented as part of a general anthology.
Another love letter to Lovecraft..
This isn't a bad story, but it's really short and pretty unsatisfying. The art is excellent, and the plot is intriguing enough, but the payoff feels like a quick burst that just doesn't go into the kind of depth I've come to expect from Mr. Moore.The introduction is decent, even if the setup feels a bit fomulaic. The main character is a pretty nondescript "everyman" (of the middle-class straight white guy variety), and he's on a case no different from Red Dragon or Saw or The Cell or any number
I decided to give Alan Moore’s Mythos series a second go despite giving up on it the first time. I enjoyed this first part more this time around, but I still wish he wouldn’t try to write song lyrics.
short and powerful, like a spear to the chest. I can't wait to get into Neonomicon!
Oh, please Alan Moore! Please tell me how do you do it. How the hell do you manage blowing my mind every time I finish a book that bears your name on its cover? Can you stop doing that for a bit, because I just cannot imagine my world as the same after finishing 'The Courtyard'? (On second thoughts, please don't .)Back so many years ago in the incomparable 'Watchmen', you gave us an alternate New York City unlike any other, with electric cars and bizarrely-shaped airships, with streets that 'sm...
Misogynistic/racist/homophobic main character? Copious drug use? Dingy urban environment? Bad music? Monsters/horrors out of space and time? Gory violence? Yup, this is an Alan Moore story alright! It’s worth noting that this is a comic based upon an Alan Moore short story, not a comic written by Moore. The Courtyard was a short story written by Alan Moore published in a mid-90s anthology of Lovecraft-inspired tales called The Starry Wisdom; this early ‘00s two-issue comic is adapted from that s...
