Joshi's 1996 biography may be dismayed to find only caricature. Those familiar with the five volumes of Lovecraft's Selected Letters or S.T. The story's remainder concerns Lovecraft's repetitive attempts, in childhood and adulthood, to ward off a series of repellent creatures (perhaps the evil offspring of the dreaded magical tome, or just the product of his sick imagination). Like the actual philandering father, who contracted syphilis, this Winfield dies in an insane asylum in Lovecraft's native Providence, R.I., though not before passing on the family copy of Abdul Alhazred's Necronomicon to his young son. The book focuses on the graphics, notably lurid, dialogue-free sequences depicting Cthulhu and his tentacled kin assaulting helpless humans, starting with HPL's father, Winfield, shown in bed with a woman not his wife in a Chicago hotel. Lovecraft (1890-1937), Argentine artist Breccia and DC writer Giffen ( Lobo) take a surreal, psychosexual look at the American horror master's life story. Inspired by a Rodionoff screenplay that assumes the "reality" of the alien monsters invented by H.P.
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