H-Minus 24 Part II - Azathoth's Comic Picks For This Halloween Season

Check your local comic shop for these babies out now or coming soon!

Escape of the Living Dead - Resurrected

The ultimate zombie graphic novel, John Russo's zombie epic is unveiled in this definitive collection! The co-writer of the classic film Night of the Living Dead brings his all-new zombie masterpiece to comics! All ten issues of the Escape of the Living Dead are collected into this one giant tome of terror. Included are the original 5 issue series, the 3 issue Airborne series, the Fearbook, and the Annual.

It's been three years since the blood soaked night that the dead rose from their graves, attacking and devouring the living. Now, the legacy of that horrific and unexplained event is about to be unleashed once again upon an unsuspecting world... With zombies once again roaming the Pennsylvania countryside, only a handful of individuals know that the horror has begun anew. This collected edition features a new cover by Mike Wolfer. Written by John Russo, art by Dheeraj Verma, cover by Mike Wolfer.


Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths

The career-spanning short works of Alan Moore are collected in this tome — with over 50 pages of additional material not in the original mini-series. Added in are fascinating obscure interviews about the man, his craft, and magic, as well as essays from Moore himself and loads of additional new artwork. Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths features tons of Moore’s classic short sequential comic book stories; stories that have been long out of print, that have never before been seen, and special developmental sections with original script pages and comments from Moore and the creators.

Included is the amazing Nightjar (with art by the great Bryan Talbot), plus many more tales illustrated by Talbot, Juan Jose Ryp, Val Semieks, Mike Wolfer, Marat Mychaels, Hunt Emerson, and Jacen Burrows. Rounding out the works is a piece that is vital to any Alan Moore collection: I Keep Coming Back, a coda to the masterpiece From Hell, with art by Oscar Zarate.

This massive volume also includes an extensive interview with Moore, plus Antony Johnston’s Yuggoth Creatures, a work inspired by Yuggoth Cultures and the worlds of H.P. Lovecraft, with art by Ryp, Burrows, Dheeraj Verma, and many more.

Vincent Price Presents #13 - Dr. Phibes

This one-shot featuring Vincent Price tells another gothic adventure about the one of the characters that Price made famous, Dr. Phibes. Investigating a bad actor's death, Inspector Trout joins Thanatos, a mysterious man involved with Dr. Phibes' past, into a journey to London's sewers. They, they discover what happened to the master of bizarre murder.

Fall of Cthulhu vol. 6 - Nemesis

Michael Alan Nelson, the critically acclaimed author of Hexed, concludes his Fall Of Cthulhu maxi-series with Nemesis, an epic origin story revealing the secret history behind Nyarlathotep's favorite companion. Who is Nemesis you ask? Get this book and find out. The fight for Atlantis continues as a weary king exposes sycophants who pray to the Old Ones, their dissent and aggression mounting. The Crawling Chaos must be stopped! Be prepared for the shock of your life as BOOM!'s best-selling horror title comes to its shocking conclusion! Written by Michael Alan Nelson, with artwork by Todd Herman.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #5

The direct comic adaption of the book that inspired Blade Runner continues! The world has survived war, but is it ready for mass empathy? Everyday, the thousands left on Earth immerse themselves within the plight of Wilbur Mercer. They suffer as he does, making a never-ending climb through a Hellish terrain. Welcome to the world of Rick Deckard and the world of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Covers by Bill Sienkiewicz and Moritat.

Hack/Slash Vol. 3: Friday the 31st

Surviving the first horror movie is tough. Surviving the sequel is near-impossible! But making it to the third? Now that's damn well superhuman! Cassie and Vlad manage to get to their third trade paperback collection of Hack/Slash. But there, they have to face murderous dolls, medical miscreants and satanic rockers... Will they make it to the end in one piece? Get this cult classic today!


Hack/Slash: The Series #28

Cassie and Vlad are called back to the strange little town of Haverhill, as the peaceful, idyllic burg is beset by Mary Shelley Lovecraft and her Franken-Deep Ones. Mary, intent on taking a Groom in her quest to remake the world in fiction, just might have Our Pal Taber in her sights. But Taber already has enough trouble deciding between the blonde and the redhead! Crazy, sexy, gory fun that mixes Cthulhu with Archie!


FVZA (Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency) #1

In a world where a deadly disease transforms innocent victims into Zombies, a long dormant government task force is called to action: The Federal Vampire and Zombie Agency.

Throughout history, from the Civil War to World War II, the FVZA protected humanity from the blood-sucking, flesh-eating hordes -- until a cure was discovered that sent the undead to their graves. When a new incurable strain of the virus ravages a small town in America, Agent Landra Pecos must call upon her lethal skills to eradicate the threat. But as Landra delves deeper into her investigation of the undead menace, she uncovers shocking secrets that will change her life forever.

Based on the popular website FVZA.org and written by comics superstar David Hine (Civil War: X-Men, Spider-Man Noir, Arkham Asylum).


The Complete Dracula

“As the Count leaned over me and his hands touched me… a horrible feeling of nausea came over me, which, do what I would, I could not conceal.” – Bram Stoker’s Dracula

Dynamite presents the complete story of the Lord of the Undead — Dracula! For the first time in 112 years the tale that Bram Stoker intended to tell is told (including “Dracula’s Guest”!). If you thought you knew how it began or how it ends, you were wrong! Writers John Reppion and Leah Moore are joined by painter Colton Worley for an odyssey of life, death, and the blood that flows within us all!

This adaptation features fully painted art done in a rich, moody style by Worley, all under covers by modern master John Cassaday! Moore and Reppion also provide bonus material such as script pages, annotations, a cover gallery, and samplings of the original text by Bram Stoker including the lost chapter "Dracula's Guest!"

Animated shorts based on H.P. Lovecraft Stories

The Terrible Old Man 1:


The Terrible Old Man 2:


Into the Crypt:


Ryleh:


The Music of Erich Zann:


Pickman's Model:

Night Gallery Episode based on H. P. Lovecraft's "Pickman's Model"

Here is the old Night Gallery "Pickman's Model" episode. Enjoy.

You can also hear an audio adaption of the story and read the original text as well as a bunch of trivia and factoids about it over in my previous Pickman's Model posting.


Night Gallery Pickman's Model Part 01:

Night Gallery Pickman's Model Part 02:

Night Gallery Pickman's Model Part 03:

Night Gallery Pickman's Model Part 04:

Cthuloid Movie Trailers

From Beyond




The Call of Cthulhu



Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown Trailer 1:


Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown Trailer 2 (Ramsey Campbell):


Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown Trailer 3 (Caitlin R Kiernan):


Lovecraft: Fear of the Unknown Trailer 4 - HPL Taken Seriously:



The Whisperer in Darkness




The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath




Strange Aeons




Cthulhu, the Movie




Mountains Of Madness

Misc Cthulhu Related Videos:

AZATHOTH:




Azathoth
by H. P. Lovecraft


When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of Spring's flowering meads; when learning stripped the Earth of her mantle of beauty and poets sang no more of twisted phantoms seen with bleared and inward looking eyes; when these things had come to pass, and childish hopes had gone forever, there was a man who traveled out of life on a quest into spaces whither the world's dreams had fled.

Of the name and abode of this man little is written, for they were of the waking world only; yet it is said that both were obscure. It is enough to say that he dwelt in a city of high walls where sterile twilight reigned, that he toiled all day among shadow and turmoil, coming home at evening to a room whose one window opened not to open fields and groves but on to a dim court where other windows stared in dull despair.

From that casement one might see only walls and windows, except sometimes when one leaned so far out and peered at the small stars that passed. And because mere walls and windows must soon drive a man to madness who dreams and reads much, the dweller in that room used night after night to lean out and peer aloft to glimpse some fragment of things beyond the waking world and the tall cities.

After years he began to call the slow sailing stars by name, and to follow them in fancy when they glided regretfully out of sight; till at length his vision opened to many secret vistas whose existance no common eye suspected. And one night a mighty gulf was bridged, and the dream haunted skies swelled down to the lonely watcher's window to merge with the close air of his room and to make him a part of their fabulous wonder.

There came to that room wild streams of violet midnight glittering with dust of gold, vortices of dust and fire, swirling out of the ultimate spaces and heavy perfumes from beyond the worlds. Opiate oceans poured there, litten by suns that the eye may never behold and having in their whirlpools strange dolphins and sea-nymphs of unrememberable depths.

Noiseless infinity eddied around the dreamer and wafted him away without touching the body that leaned stiffly from the lonely window; and for days not counted in men's calandars the tides of far spheres that bore him gently to join the course of other cycles that tenderly left him sleeping on a green sunrise shore, a green shore fragrant with lotus blossums and starred by red camalotes...



Ad for Myth-Os cereal. From the HPL film festival:




IA! IA! Cthulhu Fthagn!
(Really cool video clip, a montage of Cthuloid imagery accompanied by music from a bunch of sellouts from when they were once cool.)




Cthulhu's Song




Eldritch Off Commercial




Carol of the Old Ones




Cthulhu Meditation




Lovecraft on Mastermind




Neil Gaiman Discusses H.P. Lovecraft