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Lovecraft – I.N.J. Culbard (SelfMadeHero)

Few writers have had the same kind of impact on genre fiction as Howard Phillips Lovecraft. Largely unrecognised and ignored during his lifetime, his literary legacy in the eighty one years since his death has…


Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie – Néjib (Self Made Hero)

French-Tunisian artist Néjib’s colourful graphic novel depicts Bowie’s formative years in the Bohemian commune of Haddon Hall where he was to write many of the songs that went on to form ‘The Man Who Sold The…


Ghost Stories Of An Antiquary: A Graphic Collection of Short Stories by M.R. James Adapted by Leah Moore and John Reppion (Self Made Hero)

My collection of horror books has over the many years come and gone, expanded and contracted, yet somehow I have never been without at least one edition of M. R. James. I suspect that subconsciously…


Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film – Edward Ross

Filmish: A Graphic Journey Through Film – Edward Ross (SelfMadeHero) Having been enchanted, and enamoured, by film from the first time I experienced it in all its cinematic glory in nineteen seventy seven, I can…





The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath – H.P. Lovecraft & I.N.J. Culbard

The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath – H.P. Lovecraft & I.N.J. Culbard (Self Made Hero) Lovecraft’s tales of twisted terror and other worldly horror always bordered on the realm of dreams and nightmares, his stories of…