Lovecraft at Home

Chris Perridas' inexhaustible blog alerted me to this series of sketches mixing H.P. Lovecraft's daily life with his weird creations. The "Lovecraft at Home" drawings come from artist jneborsky on Picasa. They are simple, yet stylish. There's also something to be said for the very idea of Lovecraft at home. Aside from his journeys to visit friends and a brief stint of married life in New York City, Lovecraft mostly restricted himself to Providence. He was not the total recluse of popular legend. And yet, the three Providence residences of his life were where he lived and wrote day to day. Home is where he peered into the abyss of an expanding universe, and the abyss reflected back the cosmic horrors of the gargantuan, uncaring universe inscribed in his stories. So, it's only appropriate these cartoons mingle the writer's internal and external realities.


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