Happy Birthday, H.P. Lovecraft!

Art by Jason Thompson

"I couldn’t live a week without a private library - indeed, I’d part with all my furniture 
and squat and sleep on the floor before I’d let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."

Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Born August 20th, 1890

Howard Phillips Lovecraft - Born August 20th, 1890

“At night, when the objective world has slunk back into its cavern and left dreamers to 

their own, there come inspirations and capabilities impossible at any less magical and quiet hour. No one knows whether or not he is a writer unless he has tried writing at night.” 

 - H.P. Lovecraft

Portraits by Francesco Francavilla

Cthuhlu For Kids and Other Alternate Horrors

Celebrate H.P. Lovecraft's Birthday with tentacle inspired fan art mash-ups.

Dr FaustusAU has cleverly re-imagined the Call of Cthulhu as a kids book in the 

style of Dr Seuss. These are few sample pages but you can view the entire book here.

He's also begun adapting The Tomb here.

And here are a couple more alt art takes on the Lovecraftian Mythos

Sean Hartter's groovy book cover make-over for The Mountains of Madness
and a poster for one of the coolest movies you'll never see...

...which in some alternate universe plays in an epic double feature with this film!

Artist unknown via The Lovecraftsman.

And almost forgot Muzki's homage to Herge - Tintin Meets Lovecraft covers.

You can find more of these @io9

The Chinatown Death Cloud Peril by Paul Malmont

"What's real? What's Pulp?" is the heated debate started by ambitious young writer L.Ron Hubbard one evening at Greenwich Village's White Horse Tavern between the genre's rival icons Walter Gibson(The Shadow) and Lester Dent(Doc Savage). And very soon after they are all embroiled in a mystery that cleverly uses this theme by mixing real details from the authors' lives with bold Pulp story devices. There are many rich details not only of the writers' lives and the publishing business but of the of the era in general; including cameos by a young Orson Wells, Blackstone the Magician, as well as other Pulp writers - even a bit of contemporary Chinese History. Oh, and of course the mystery wouldn't be complete without some unusual events regarding H.P. Lovecraft's death and a surprising enigmatic stranger. A great tribute to the genre written by Paul Malmont.