My Kickstarter project, finally. Signed and with my name forever enshrined as a contributor.

I'm not a big fan of Lovecraft's Dream Cycle stories, but the graphic novel is a great vehicle for making those stories come alive in a way that I think words never can. For someone to read the stories and to come away with an effective concrete vision and execute it, as Thompson has, is no mean feat. The artwork is exquisitely detailed and it took me a long time to read this because I wanted to linger over every cel. You can tell this was a work of love for the illustrator. As a bonus the end papers are accurate (or as accurate as these things can be) maps of Lovecraft's Dreamlands.

Why not five stars? No color. Except for the cover all the artwork is B&W. I know that color would have made the book fabulously more expensive, but once you look at the cover you will yearn for what could have been. Mockman. I know that Thompson was trying to put the reader into the Dreamland's Carter by making the character a much less literal figure artistically, but it just wasn't as effective as a more realistic figure would have been for me. Those wormy arms and hands kept bothering me too.

I still loved it and was glad I could be a very small part of making it real. ( )

Per publisher: "Limited edition oversize 184-page hardcover includes a full comic adaptation of the novel by H.P. Lovecraft, as well as the related stories "The White Ship," "Celephais" and "The Strange High House in the Mist." It also features a 2-page endpapers map of the dream world, as well as an art gallery section with concept sketches and additional drawings by Jason Bradley Thompson."

"Thompson has a clear love and respect for the source material and draws the picaresque fantasy in an ornate and heavily-rendered style... It’s a faithful adaptation and one that should satisfy even the most ardent of Lovecraft admirers."
--Gavin Lees, Bleeding Cool

The art in this book is just beautiful. ( )