A Lovecraft Retrospective: Artists Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft (First Standard Edition)

A comprehensive study of Lovecraft's legacy on art and design. The Lovecraft Retrospective draws on the full range of artistic responses to Lovecraft's work over the previous eight decades. From the original pulp illustrations of Weird Tales through the paperback cover art of the 1960s and 1970s, fanzines, film production design, sculpture, and private commissions, the volume presents the accumulated visual imagination that Lovecraft's fiction has generated across a century of continuous creative response. 

The framing essays are provided by three figures of exceptional authority. Harlan Ellison (1934–2018), the most award-winning author of speculative fiction in the history of the field, contributed the introduction. Stuart Gordon (1947–2020), the director of Re-Animator (1985) and From Beyond (1986), wrote the preface. Thomas Ligotti (b. 1953), the American horror author widely regarded as the most significant writer in the Lovecraftian tradition since Lovecraft himself, provided the afterword.

Centipede Press was founded by Jerad Walters in Lakewood, Colorado, initially as Cocytus Press in 2001 and renamed in 2004. It has established itself as the foremost specialty publisher of fine limited editions in the horror, science fiction, and weird fiction genres, with a particular emphasis on the Lovecraft tradition.

Standard slipcase edition. Edited by. Jerad Walters; preface by Stuart Gordon; introduced by Harlan Ellison; afterword by Thomas Ligotti; focused artists include H.R. Giger, Michael Whelan, Lee Brown Coye, Virgil Finlay, Gahan Wilson, John Coulthart, Ian Miller, Bob Eggleton, Mike Mignola, J.K. Potter, John Jude Palencar, and others. Large Folio (30.5 × 39 cm). Full black cloth. Cover decorated with tentacle pattern in blind; gilt titling to cover and spine. Pictorial dustjacket. Black cloth slipcase. Two silk ribbon markers (black and yellow). 400 pp. Colour and black and white illustrations throughout; numerous multi-page fold-outs, including Michael Whelan's Lovecraft Diptych, here approximately four feet wide. Profusely illustrated with over forty artists' work spanning eight decades of Lovecraftian art. Over 20,000 words of original essays. A beautifully preserved copy, free from imperfections. Slipcase shows some shelf markings.

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Catalogue Number: HH000627