Alan Moore's Neonomicon

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Sax in the mental hospital has carved a swastika into his own forehead. The mental hospital clerk refers to him as "Der Führer".

Time Skip: Between each issue. The commonplace book bridges the gap and tells us what Robert is up to (mostly travelling/arranging/moving from one place to another). This skipping of events becomes a plot point in Issue 5 and 6 where time dilation happens, and Robert's journal gets hazy as he tries to keep his head straight. Adaptational Villainy: Something the Deep Ones get hit with in a lot of adaptations. In the original The Shadow Over Innsmouth, there was never any implication that the Deep Ones were rapists, or that the humans they had sex with (mostly men in the original text, but that's less sensational) weren't consenting. In March 2012 it became the first recipient of the newly created " Graphic Novel" category at the Bram Stoker Awards. [3] Plot [ edit ] Historical In-Joke: Issue 11 has J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI discuss Robert's Commonplace book, with Clyde Tolson. Hoover himself notes there's something "unmanly" about Robert. The joke is that Hoover was himself a closet Gay Conservative and Clyde Tolson was his longtime partner. Hill, Gary (2006). The Strange Sound of Cthulhu: Music Inspired by the Writings of H. P. Lovecraft. Music Street Journal. ISBN 978-1-84728-776-2.Darker and Edgier: The story takes the works of H.P Lovecraft to some very dark places that even Lovecraft himself danced around or demurred from going to. Let that sink in for a moment.

Greater-Scope Villain: The unseen "secret chief" of Stella Sapiente, who appears to be Nyarlathotep judging by Johnny Carcosa's mother's presence within his room at Saint John's church. Fischer, Craig (February 3, 2016). "Providence: Lovecraft, Sexual Violence, and the Body of the Other". The Comics Journal. Not So Harmless: Pitman seems like a very decent chap throughout issue 7 and hosts Robert for ten days, treating him particularly kindly with the result that Robert is more relaxed than he's been in several issues. Then the last panel reveals that he doesn't just paint ghouls' horrific acts, he killed Officer O'Brien for his painting.

Shadrach Annesley note inspired by the nameless old man of The Picture in the House, who briefly appears in the third issue, is suggested to use the diet method of cannibalism, extending his life by two and a half centuries. Selective Obliviousness: Robert is insistent on trying to ignore the supernatural, rationalising them as psychological episodes. He even manages it retroactively after his body-swap rape, though by this point he is clearly in denial and suppresses his traumatic memories. Ironically his obliviousness is shattered not by seeing something inhuman, but by realising in a conversation with Lovecraft the latter's ties to Stella Sapiente. Creepy Child: Lovecraft readers will recognise that Elspeth as standing in for Asenath Waite from "The Thing on the Doorstep", and so is apparently possessed by Etienne Roulet, one of the founders of Stella Sapiente. Dr. Alvarez note inspired by Dr. Muñoz of Cool Air in the first issue uses the second method by chilling himself. Non-Malicious Monster: King George treats individual humans kindly at times, and sees the ghouls eating dead humans as necessary for his species, and a use of an otherwise wasted resource. Subverted in that he doesn't justify the ghouls clearly gleeful consumption of alive and screaming people.