{"id":17538,"date":"2015-12-11T01:02:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T01:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/?p=17538"},"modified":"2022-07-13T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:45:53","slug":"the-gods-of-hp-lovecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/12\/11\/the-gods-of-hp-lovecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gods of HP Lovecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gods01.jpg\" alt=\"gods01.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Yig for Rattled by Douglas Wynne.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Presenting one of this summer&#8217;s bigger projects, these are my drawings for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/bibliopoesy\/gods.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Gods of HP Lovecraft<\/em><\/a>, a collection of 12 all-new stories edited by Aaron French for <a href=\"http:\/\/journalstone.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">JournalStone<\/a>. After I&#8217;d begun work I was asked whether I could illustrate all 12 stories but since I was already busy with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/10\/28\/the-monstrous\/\"><em>The Monstrous<\/em><\/a> it wasn&#8217;t possible. My drawings occupy the second half of the book, with the first half being filled out with suitable illustrations by Paul Carrick and Steve Santiago. The contents are as follows:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Call the Name<\/em> by Adam LG Nevill (Cthulhu)<br \/>\n<em>The Dark Gates<\/em> by Martha Wells (Yog-Sothoth)<br \/>\n<em>We Smoke the Northern Lights<\/em> by Laird Barron (Azathoth)<br \/>\n<em>Petohtalrayn<\/em> by Bentley Little (Nyarlathotep)<br \/>\n<em>The Doors that Never Close and the Doors that Are Always Open<\/em> by David Liss (Shub-Niggurath)<br \/>\n<em>The Apotheosis of a Rodeo Clown<\/em> by Brett J. Talley (Tsathoggua)<br \/>\n<em>Rattled<\/em> by Douglas Wynne (Yig)<br \/>\n<em>In Their Presence<\/em> by Christopher Golden &amp; James A. Moore (The Mi-Go)<br \/>\n<em>Dream a Little Dream of Me<\/em> by Jonathan Maberry (Nightgaunts)<br \/>\n<em>In the Mad Mountains<\/em> by Joe R. Lansdale (Elder Things)<br \/>\n<em>A Dying of the Light<\/em> by Rachel Caine (Great Race of Yith)<br \/>\n<em>Down, Deep Down, Below the Waves<\/em> by Seanan McGuire (The Deep Ones)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gods02.jpg\" alt=\"gods02.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Mi-Go for In Their Presence by Christopher Golden &amp; James A. Moore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Despite having produced a fair amount of Lovecraft-related illlustration there&#8217;s still some areas of his work that I haven&#8217;t touched, especially where creature portraits are concerned. So this collection features my first attempts at rendering one of the Mi-Go and one of the Yithians from <em>The Shadow Out of Time<\/em>. The latter are often represented as fearsome monsters which always strikes me as erroneous when so much description in the story is devoted to their book reading and archive building. Aliens, yes, but monsters they are not. There was some concern when I delivered the artwork that the fine lines and detail might not print so well on paperback stock but the printing is excellent throughout. I recommend this collection for anyone in the mood for some new Lovecraftian fiction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gods03.jpg\" alt=\"gods03.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Night-Gaunt for Dream a Little Dream of Me by Jonathan Maberry.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gods04.jpg\" alt=\"gods04.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Elder Things for In the Mad Mountains by Joe R. Lansdale.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gods05.jpg\" alt=\"gods05.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>The Great Race of Yith for A Dying of the Light by Rachel Caine.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/gods06.jpg\" alt=\"gods06.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Deep One for Down, Deep Down, Below the Waves by Seanan McGuire.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere on { feuilleton }<br \/>\n\u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/themed-archive-pages\/the-lovecraft-archive\/\">The Lovecraft archive<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yig for Rattled by Douglas Wynne. Presenting one of this summer&#8217;s bigger projects, these are my drawings for The Gods of HP Lovecraft, a collection of 12 all-new stories edited by Aaron French for JournalStone. After I&#8217;d begun work I was asked whether I could illustrate all 12 stories but since I was already busy &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/2015\/12\/11\/the-gods-of-hp-lovecraft\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Gods of HP Lovecraft&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,30,42,22,26,23],"tags":[7844,7847,7849,7851,7853,104,7850,7852,1687,7854,3482,1760,7855,7845,5455,7848,320,1346,7856,7857,7846,6935,9653],"class_list":["post-17538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-black-white","category-books","category-horror","category-lovecraft","category-work","tag-aaron-french","tag-adam-lg-nevill","tag-bentley-little","tag-brett-j-talley","tag-christopher-golden","tag-cthulhu","tag-david-liss","tag-douglas-wynne","tag-hp-lovecraft","tag-james-a-moore","tag-jk-potter","tag-joe-r-lansdale","tag-jonathan-maberry","tag-journalstone","tag-laird-barron","tag-martha-wells","tag-necronomicon","tag-paul-carrick","tag-rachel-caine","tag-seanan-mcguire","tag-steve-santiago","tag-the-doors-group","tag-yuggoth"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pq7rV-4yS","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.johncoulthart.com\/feuilleton\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}