He Knows Too Much: Pitman tries to urge O'Brien to leave, but the police officer just had to notice how extremely realistic the painting of the Boylston Street Station disaster was...

Cryptic Conversation: During Brears's drug-induced dream as the creature is raping her, Johnny Carcosa tells her, "What thith ith, ith you're a nun, thee, Asian, merry." Brears doesn't understand this at the time ("I'm not Asian"), but after thinking about it later, she realizes what he'd actually said: "What this is, is your annunciation, Mary."

3. Fall of Cthulhu

Pragmatic, indeed. And while we’re all delving into these kinds of comic books and providing context for and analysis of their artistic merit, it’s sometimes refreshing to hear a creator, even before the release of a project, admit that he did it for the cash. It’s a job. This dystopian graphic novel continues to be relevant even 30 years after it ended. With its warnings against fascism, white supremacy and the horrors of a police state, V for Vendetta follows one woman and a revolutionary anarchist on a campaign to challenge and change the world.

Harms, Dan and John Wisdom Gonce III. 2003. The Necronomicon Files. Boston: Red Wheel Weiser. p. 103 ISBN 9781578632695 Davidsen, Keith (1 April 2012). "Alan Moore Accepts First-Ever GN Bram Stoker Award for Neonomicon". Avatar Press . Retrieved 29 April 2012. Time Skip: Between each issue. The commonplace book bridges the gap and tells us what Robert is up to (mostly travelling/arranging/moving from one place to another). This skipping of events becomes a plot point in Issue 5 and 6 where time dilation happens, and Robert's journal gets hazy as he tries to keep his head straight. Robert notably stutters a lot when he arrives in Boston at the beginning of issue 7, a result of his traumatic experience in Manchester.In “The Courtyard,” Alan Moore’s contribution to The Starry Wisdom, a 1994 anthology in which notable writers from J. G. Ballard to Ramsey Campbell (and even Grant Morrison) write stories in the mold of Lovecraft, we meet a racist, unhinged narrator who happens to be an FBI agent. According to his unreliable narration, his investigation into a series of murders in Red Hook has led him to infiltrate a cult-like nightclub where he gets hooked into Aklo, a potent white powder that gives the narrator visions of Lovecraftian nightmares.

Lawrence Talbot, a werewolf, has just set up shop in the dark, mysterious town of Innsmouth. He soon hears that the end of the world is supposedly nigh and the tool that’s going to bring it about is the blood of a werewolf. Much of the criticism this comic has received is on its art, which some say doesn't do the original story justice. This comic’s story is actually pretty short, and a decent chunk of it is sketches illustrating how the comic came to be. They Look Just Like Everyone Else!: Ronald Underwood Pitman is a quite boring-looking fellow, shy, agreeable and a modest artist. Which makes it all the more unnerving what he is mixed up in, as he knows that it's wrong. Another reason for this is revealed towards the end, that being to prevent the males from mating with human women. In humans the genes for limiting growth come from the father, whereas in Deep Ones they come from the mother. The results of a male Deep One and female human mating can be... unwieldy. Mythology Gag: The Church that would become "Club Zothique" in The Courtyard appears in "Providence" where it has already become a dance-hall.

6. Nameless

Fling a Light into the Future: The Commonplace Book becomes this inadvertently after Robert's suicide in the penultimate issue, helping to take down two covens and providing what appears to be a last ditch hope for humanity. Did You Just Romance Cthulhu?: In volume 10, Robert gets a blowjob from Carcossa, a messenger from the outer spheres and an Eldritch Abomination. Robert is not in the least pleased by the experience. Howard Charles gains an old fashioned top hat and pipe as well as stubble when Japheth Colwen possesses him.

Adaptational Sexuality: Many characters based on ones from Lovecraft's works are depicted as gay, although since most of them never had any kind of romantic relationships in the original stories, this is probably moot. Robert himself almost certainly counts, as he's indirectly based on Robert Bloch. And then, there's the landlady from Cool Air being a necrophiliac. a b c Ó Méalóid, Pádraig (April 16, 2013). "Interview: Alan Moore on Providence, Jerusalem, League and more – Part 1". Comics Beat. Archived from the original on April 1, 2016 . Retrieved April 21, 2016. Alien Geometries: The Plateau of Leng definitely qualifies. R'lyeh is actually Agent Brears's womb. Garland Wheatley: Just so long as you remember that them paths to the old knowledge only goes one way. One you're there, you can't come home no more. Max "Mutt" Mason is hired by Lavinia Tillinghast to find her missing twin sister. His investigation leads him to discover that there are larger, darker forces at work and that if certain events are not properly dealt with, it could very well mean the end of the world. This two-issue long series is made extra enjoyable with its plentiful cliches and references.Well, it goes the only place it can: to the end. It’s a violent denouement, a wrap-up, and an epilogue. As with even the most throwaway of Alan Moore’s work, the narrative design is impeccable, bringing together the story’s threads, contextualizing the Lovecraftian facts strewn throughout the story, and giving us the twist ending to make the whole ordeal in some way meaningful. The sexual violence of the story’s middle is replaced with a more readily acceptable Kiefer-Sutherland-style FBI shoot-out; the nasty cultists and the hulking behemoth get theirs, as they must. But by the end, the true villain of the story stands revealed. These are the mountains of madness, after all, and we’re following our heroes to it’s peak. An occult hustler who goes by Nameless is hired as part of a mission to save the world from impending doom in the form of an asteroid set on colliding with Earth. What makes that comet a real problem though, is the fact that there’s an ancient being trapped on it that’s dreaming of destruction. Nameless is incredibly complex, perhaps even too complex for some, that is hard to understand without prior knowledge of many of its references. This has been one of the comics major source of criticism, but others note that it was likely Nameless was intentionally written that way, but why? You’ll have to read to find out. Decon-Recon Switch: It's ultimately stressed that colored by the prejudices of those that tell it, Cosmic Horror is still Cosmic Horror, and it takes no prisoners regardless of one's views or supposed level of righteousness. Since this series occurs in the same universe as Neonomicon, it appears that in-universe H.P. Lovecraft discovered the various supernatural phenomenon featured here and then wrote at least some of his stories about them, changing the names. Issue 2's "The Hook" refers to "The Horror at Red Hook", the story that it is largely based on. It also refers to hooks which grasp the mind: Robert finds out much more about Hali's Booke and fuel for his research, and the reader sees the first obvious sign of the supernatural.