This one was yet another unknown Lovecraft's work to me.

I have to say that story itself was highly intriguing. While starting up as a story about a young man trying to find out more about his family history it very soon becomes a very Twilight-like tale with a rather strong twist. Ending was on par with the ending of Hitchock's Psycho, sad and disturbing at the same time.

Art is excellent (as it was case with all Lovecraft books prepared by I.N.J. Cullbard), flow of story, and overall visual presentation is so cinematic that it seems like it was created on a basis of movie scene-by-scene drawings. Truly wonderful.

Highly recommended. ( )

Pretty much a straight forward telling of [b:The Case of Charles Dexter Ward|129327|The Case of Charles Dexter Ward|H.P. Lovecraft|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1171986139s/129327.jpg|124552] which is refreshing since everyone else seems to believe they can improve things by messing with or updating Lovecraft's stories for their graphic novels. Nice artwork to go with the story and no padding. The GN actually makes the story easier to follow than the Lovecraft original since the transition of Ward/Curwen is kind of sketchy in the story when you read it for the first time.

If you like this one I can also recommend [b:At the Mountains of Madness: A Graphic Novel|7960820|At the Mountains of Madness A Graphic Novel|I.N.J. Culbard|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1327878891s/7960820.jpg|17942746]. ( )

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I got this having hugely enjoyed Culbard's graphic novel version of At the Mountains of Madness a few years ago. I'm sorry to say that this didn't work for me so well; it's not as visual a story, and the central characters (Charles Dexter Ward, the narrator Willett and the ancient necromancer Curwen) are not especially interesting characters. It's interesting that Lovecraft himself thought this was not one of his best efforts, and the original story remained unpublished until 1941, several years after he had died. ( )

Read it at the library. So so, vampirish undead kind of story, but it did not move me. ( )