Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths is a three-issue comic book miniseries presenting work written by comics writer Alan Moore, based on the writings of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was published by Avatar Press in 2003. Background After Dave Mitchell of Oneiros Books asked Alan Moore to contribute to The Starry Wisdom, a collection of new writings inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Moore came up with the idea to do an entire book, to be called Yuggoth Cultures, based on Lovecraft's Fungi From Yuggoth cycle of poems. Unfortunately, Moore lost the only copies of most of the pieces he had written for the book in a London taxi cab. Moore submitted a short story entitled "The Courtyard" as his entry for The Starry Wisdom, but suspended work on Yuggoth Cultures. "So the project went 'on hold,'...I kind of shoved it in the back of a drawer and forgot about it," he told Avatar editor-in-chief William Christensen in an interview included in Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths No. 3. The two other surviving pieces from Yuggoth Cultures, the poems "Recognition" and "Zaman's Hill," were included in the 1995 book Dust: A Creation Books Reader. Avatar's 2003 anthology miniseries Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths presented Antony Johnston's comics adaptation of "Recognition" and "Zaman's Hill" as well as two of Alan Moore's songs, "Litvinoff's Book" and "Me and Dorothy Parker", the never-before-seen "Nightjar," and reprints of many of Alan Moore's short comics. Publication The series was published as a 3-part black and white monthly comic: Issue #1 (September 2003) "Zaman's Hill" (adapted by Antony Johnston from Moore's poem, art by Juan Jose Ryp) "Nightjar" (art by Bryan Talbot, planned as the first instalment of a serial to appear in Warrior) Nightjar first draft script by Alan Moore A letter from Alan Moore to Bryan Talbot outlining the creation of Nightjar Nightjar commentary by Bryan Talbot Issue No. 2 (October 2003) "Litvinoff's Book" (adapted by Antony Johnston from Moore's song, art by Mike Wolfer) "Cold Snap" (art by Bryan Talbot, previously published in the 1985 Flying Pig benefit comic Food for Thought) "Itchy Peterson: Just Born Lucky I Guess" (pencils by Val Semeiks, inks by Kevin Conrad, previously published in Chaos! Comics's Nightmare Theater #4 in 1997) "The Nativity on Ice" (written by Alan Moore under the pen name "Kurt Vile", with art by Bryan Talbot, previously published in Kimota Magazine