Lovecraft Country: Return to Arkham
August 3rd, 2005
Yet another awesome discovery brought to light via the incomparable web-scouring skillz of BoingBoing.net: Lovecraft Country: Return to Arkham, an intriguing and beautifully-drawn webcomic based - obviously - in HPL’s Arkham, Mass. The comic’s author used to be involved with Chaosium, makes of the Call of Cthulhu RPG, and as such the comic is rather dependent on the game’s particular flavor of Arkham (which I, as something of a Lovecraft ultra-purist, have often found to stray a bit too far from HPL’s original vision), but it’s still freakin’ awesome–Grandpa Theobald would most definitely have been proud of this work.
Thought “Lovecraft Country” is a trademark owned by Chaosium, the comic itself is released under a non-commercial Share-Alike 2.5 Creative Commons license that allows derivative works. Something that HPL would’ve certainly applauded highly, since he originally intended his “Mythos” to be something of a community property to which all weird comers could contribute. Something tells me Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos may have to be writing a theme for this piece soon….
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