Title: Great art, hopeless verse
Product review: I wanted to like this. I really did. But ... I didn't. It's such a brilliant idea and the execution is so disappointing. The art is excellent - wonderfully creepy and Gorey-esque - but the selection of alphabetic entities seems arbitrary at best to anyone with a half-decent familiarity with Lovecraft and the "poetry" is hopeless. The little verses show a real tin ear for rhyme and meter, and don't even attempt to stick to a consistent stanza form throughout (in contrast to Gorey, whose little poems were always as beautifully crafted as his drawings). A disappointment.
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