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A review by rebus
Providence Compendium by Alan Moore
5.0
While I have never had an interest in much horror, particularly the works of Lovecraft, this is a literary thriller in the truest sense and one of Moore's great masterworks. Moore explores many fascinating tropes in horror, casting his main character in the role of the investigator that is unwittingly entwined in the very tale he is investigating, illustrating it brilliantly via his diary entries that follow each chapter, 'questioning even the existence of identity as a phenomenon' as Robert puts it.
The artwork is as brilliant as the writing, with an epic sort of Escher like quality at times, and not shying away from the gory or sexual elements of the literature that inspired it. If only the early purveyors of this stuff wrote as well as Moore, who tells us through these tales that the written word is the true magic of the world.
The artwork is as brilliant as the writing, with an epic sort of Escher like quality at times, and not shying away from the gory or sexual elements of the literature that inspired it. If only the early purveyors of this stuff wrote as well as Moore, who tells us through these tales that the written word is the true magic of the world.