Lovecraftian Horror meets the zombie apocalypse in today’s comic. Our zombies invade Innsmouth for some cross genre horror.
For those of you not familiar with Innsmouth, it comes from a story “The Shadow Over Innsmouth” The Novella was written in 1931 by the great and powerful H.P. Lovecraft. It’s always been one of my favorite stories.
Lovecraftian horror holds a special place in my cold dead black heart. It’s not that it’s particularly scary. It’s just that it has these themes and moods to it that really appeal to me when I look for good horror.
I love the ideas about lost crumbling civilizations and unimaginable horrors trying to get back into our world. It has an overpowering theme that mankind is accidental and inconsequential in an vast unfeeling and uncaring universe.
It’s the same feeling I get when I visit my in-laws for the holidays, but with fewer tentacles.
I’m guessing that what would normally be a living nightmare for most humans(excluding you Carter, because you’d probably want to go there anyway) is a vacation paradise for zombies.
Ah, I was half hoping they would be heading to a cabin in the woods a la Evil Dead, but I do like Innsmouth.
They’ll get there eventually.
http://hppodcraft.com/ has some great reads of Lovecraft’s stories.
I will check that out. Love that stuff.
*claps excitedly* oooo thats one of my favorites. Cthluhu fhtagn! Ah I’d love to join the esoteric order of Dagon… well all except for the third oath. Not sure how I would deal with that kind of spouse.
I should make that into a shirt. “Proud member of the Esoteric order of Dagon”
or a bumper sticker that says “My Spawn are honor roll students at Innsmouth elementary”