Originally published at: Make it a Lovecraft Christmas with Michael Whelan's amazing holiday cards | Boing Boing
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So that’s who did those classic Lovecraft trade paperback covers. What a great way to re-purpose the art.
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It truly is an eldritch holiday, given that so much of it centers on an immortal creature residing in an arctic wasteland, who has enslaved lesser immortals to manufacture the items that he uses to arbitrarily reward or punish children.
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These are from the 1982 Del Rey paperback editions; Whelan painted “Lovecraft’s Nightmare”, a diptych which was then spread across six covers.
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Hmmm, I don’t call those particularly ’Lovecraftian’; they need more tentacles and soul-eating elder gods from the dimensions of the many-cornered ones.
Actually, the idea of Lovecraftian things being all tentacled and/or elder gods is a bit of a misconception. Relatively few of his stories deal with those. The primary theme of his stories is the fragility of sanity, not surprising from a guy who had multiple family members that had to be sent to mental hospitals and who himself probably suffered from mental illness.
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