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Nyarlathotep
Milioni di appassionati conoscono a memoria la mitologia di Lovecraft, maestro indiscusso dell’orrore, da Cthulhu a Nyarlathotep, all’arabo pazzo Abdul Alhazred.
Il dio Nyarlathotep appare per la prima volta racconto omonimo, scritto nel 1920.
In questa storia, il dio viene descritto, a differenza degli altri dèi del pantheon lovecraftiano, come un uomo alto dalla carnagione scura, poliglotta, che ricorda un faraone dell’antico Egitto.
Sotto queste sembianze, Nyarlathotep vaga sulla Terra per raccogliere legioni di seguaci, i quali finiscono col perdere pian piano il contatto con il mondo che li circonda. La sua missione, che lo distingue dagli altri Antichi, è di condurre l’umanità alla follia.
Il dio Nyarlathotep appare per la prima volta racconto omonimo, scritto nel 1920.
In questa storia, il dio viene descritto, a differenza degli altri dèi del pantheon lovecraftiano, come un uomo alto dalla carnagione scura, poliglotta, che ricorda un faraone dell’antico Egitto.
Sotto queste sembianze, Nyarlathotep vaga sulla Terra per raccogliere legioni di seguaci, i quali finiscono col perdere pian piano il contatto con il mondo che li circonda. La sua missione, che lo distingue dagli altri Antichi, è di condurre l’umanità alla follia.
64 pages, Hardcover
First published March 19, 2007
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July 22, 2022
This retelling loses very little, and adds some good creepy art. Well worthwhile.
September 3, 2022
Rating 2 out 5 | Grade: D-; Mildly interesting
After reading Nyarlathotep one comes to the conclusion that this is not one of Lovecraft's more inspired stories. With no context, a being known as Nyarlathotep, posing as Egyptian nobility, goes around building mysterious machines with grass and metal. It calls for performances where the audience are made to watch some form of sinister phenomenon involving electricity, which give them visions of a world brought to ruin by some great calamity.
Following which, the participants all wander off, their perception of the world being corrupted by the alternate vision of the ruined one, and one by one all succumb to insanity.
It is hard not to make the comparison with another person who lived in the timeframe who made bizarre machines, and held sinister performances involving electricity. I don't know if Lovecraft had some negative reservations about Tesla's work, or if the strangeness of Tesla's experiment which caused reservations even in the regular public, somehow triggered that part of his psyche which gave him endless nightmares, but whatever he is trying to communicate comes across rambled, even more than one would expect from a Lovecraftian tale.
The only saving grace is the artwork, which manages to capture some of the bleak, dark, and depressing atmosphere and environment of these stories. But too little to make me invested without a good premise.
I feel the need to go and reread some of the author's better works, perhaps The Call of Cthulhu or At the Mountains of Madness. I'm gonna go do that.
After reading Nyarlathotep one comes to the conclusion that this is not one of Lovecraft's more inspired stories. With no context, a being known as Nyarlathotep, posing as Egyptian nobility, goes around building mysterious machines with grass and metal. It calls for performances where the audience are made to watch some form of sinister phenomenon involving electricity, which give them visions of a world brought to ruin by some great calamity.
Following which, the participants all wander off, their perception of the world being corrupted by the alternate vision of the ruined one, and one by one all succumb to insanity.
It is hard not to make the comparison with another person who lived in the timeframe who made bizarre machines, and held sinister performances involving electricity. I don't know if Lovecraft had some negative reservations about Tesla's work, or if the strangeness of Tesla's experiment which caused reservations even in the regular public, somehow triggered that part of his psyche which gave him endless nightmares, but whatever he is trying to communicate comes across rambled, even more than one would expect from a Lovecraftian tale.
The only saving grace is the artwork, which manages to capture some of the bleak, dark, and depressing atmosphere and environment of these stories. But too little to make me invested without a good premise.
I feel the need to go and reread some of the author's better works, perhaps The Call of Cthulhu or At the Mountains of Madness. I'm gonna go do that.
October 23, 2020
Great art, with realistic tones mixing with nightmarish views.
The text is from Lovecraft so, for fans is a delight.
Even knowing the short story, this graphic novel disturbed me a little bit... and this is really good.
The text is from Lovecraft so, for fans is a delight.
Even knowing the short story, this graphic novel disturbed me a little bit... and this is really good.
November 26, 2020
Great adaptation of the short story. The art is grim and matches the tone perfectly. I think it could have benefited from paraphrasing/modernizing certain parts of the text (eg, "yellow faces").
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May 4, 2016Never had much use for Lovecraft, but the art is pretty awesome.
September 13, 2016
Che dire, bei disegni, ma nulla più. È un'edizione illustrata del racconto alla fine, dunque nulla aggiunge a quanto già c'era di buono nel testo di H.P. Lovercraft. Per appassionati.
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