Moore Lovecraft Comics Annotation Index

This page accesses all the annotations of Alan Moore and Jacen Burrows H.P. Lovecraft comics issue by issue, including covers – as well other Moore/Lovecraftian works in collaboration with other artists, and related items.

0. General Introduction Background – characters, themes

• The Road to Providence – how Alan Moore came to write his H.P. Lovecraft stories: The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and Providence
  
• Reading Order – what Lovecraft to read before The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and Providence
• Moorecraftian Timeline – chronology of events in The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and Providence

1. Annotations – listed in date of publication

1.0 Alan Moore’s Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths

• Recognition – text 1995, sequential adaptation July 2003
• Zaman’s Hill – text 1995, sequential adaptation October 2003

1.1 The Courtyard

• The Courtyard – text 1995, sequential adaptation 2003 – annotations were published in The Courtyard Companion – 2004

1.2 Neonomicon

• Neonomicon Hornbook – December 2009
• Neonomicon #1 – “At the Mansions of Madness” – July 2010
• Neonomicon #2 – “The Shadow out of America” – August 2010
• Neonomicon #3 – “The Language at the Threshold” – October 2010
• Neonomicon #4 – “The Lurker Within” – February 2011

1.3 Providence

• Providence #1 – “The Yellow Sign” May 2015
• Providence #2 – “The Hook” June 2015
• Providence #3 – “A Lurking Fear” July 2015
• Providence #4 – “White Apes” August 2015
• Providence #5 – “In the Walls” September 2015
• Providence #6 – “Out of Time” October 2015
• Providence #7 – “The Picture” January 2016
• Providence #8 – “The Key” March 2016
• Providence #9 – “Outsiders” May 2016
• Providence #10 – “The Haunted Palace” July 2016
• Providence #11 – “The Unnamable” November 2016
• Providence #12 – “The Book” March 2017

1.4 Nightmares of Providence

• Nightmares of Providence #1 June 2021 NEW
• Nightmares of Providence Bonus Terrors June 2021 NEW

1.5 As-yet-unnamed unnamed Moore-Lovecraft post-Providence new series

• Facts blog post on Moore collaboration with Gabriel Andrade

2. Variant Covers

2.1 The Courtyard

2.2 Neonomicon

• Auxiliary variant covers
• Book of the Dead variant covers
• Convention variant covers
• Hornbook variant covers
• Wraparound variant covers
• Collected editions and miscellaneous covers

2.3 Providence

• Convention / Weird Pulp / Ghoul variant covers
• Century variant covers
• Dreamscape variant covers
• Pantheon variant covers
• Portrait variant covers
• Women of HPL variant covers
• Collected editions, miscellaneous variant covers, and other material

2.4 Nightmares of Providence variant covers NEW

3. Miscellaneous

• American Dread: Alan Moore and the Racism of H. P. Lovecraft
• The Horror of Rape: Alan Moore, Lovecraft, and Neonomicon
• H.P. Lovecraft in 1919 – H. P. Lovecraft biography during the events of Providence
• Innsmouth Gold: Providence Sales Data
• Mapping Providence – historic maps of Providence locations
• Moorecraftian Timeline – A chronological listing of events in The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and Providence
• Moore’s Lovecraftian Bibliography – A chronological listing of Moore’s references to Lovecraft and use of the Cthulhu Mythos
• Obscenity: Alan Moore and the Miller Test – An examination of Providence #6 child rape scene
• Pickman’s Apprentice: An Appreciation of Jacen Burrows – see also Burrows mid-Providence interview.
• The Road to Providence – How Alan Moore came to write his H. P. Lovecraft stories: The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and Providence

4. Providence Creators, including Interviews

• Alan Moore Providence promotion interview, Bleeding Cool, March 2015
• Alan Moore Providence promotion interview 2, Bleeding Cool, April 2015
• ‘Lovecraft Never Said That His Entities Were Evil’ – Alan Moore On Myth, Magic, And The Elder Gods, August 2015
• Moore on Jacen Burrows, Bleeding Cool, April 2017
• Mid-Providence interview with Jacen Burrows, January 2016
• Ask the Artist Interview with Jacen Burrows, July 2016
• Newsarama Interview with Jacen Burrows, December 2016
• Jacen Burrows (artist) background: Wikipedia, comicbookdb.com, and an appreciation.
• Interview with Colorist Juan Manuel Rodríguez
• Juan Manuel Rodríguez (colorist) background: comicbookdb.com
• Kurt Hathaway (letterer) background: comicbookdb.com, mid-Providence interview and studio visit.
• Ghoul Photoshoot background: interview with Susanna Peretz of SusannaPeretzFX

5. Links to Other Sites

• AllyourbasicGerrard Neonomicon Analysis YouTube video part 1, part 2 – 2010
• Case Study: Neonomicon at the Comic Books Legal Defense Fund
• Robert and Joe sometimes discuss Alan Moore and H.P. Lovecraft at Reddit
• Find Joe Linton’s other comics writing at The Periodic Fable, includes other Alan Moore comics annotations
• Find Robert Derie’s fiction writing at The Unpublishable
• Joe, Alexx and others annotated Moore and collaborators’ Cinema Purgatorio