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Cthulhu Thursday: The Art of John Coulthart

December 2, 2010

I came across John Coulthart’s artwork in a collection of contemporary Mythos fiction (including a story by Alan Moore called The Starry Wisdom.  This was a great (but adult!) collection of work and I really enjoyed it, but what stood out was a comic inside, The Call of Cthulhu – which had horrific images that re-captured the original horror I felt when I encountered Lovecraft’s work as a child-ling.  Here’s an example of his art:

 

Approching R'lyeh

Approaching R'lyeh

Great stuff!  Here’s lots more…

(Cthulhu Thursday is a dose of Mythos to brighten darken your week. More on the idea can be found here and a list of posts thus far, here. Also for more Cthulhu news, sign up to the cthulhuHQ twitter feed. Enjoy!)

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