ABOUT THIS BOOK: SIGNED by Hans Rodinoff! Not personalized (see photo)! Why would anyone want the monsters of H. P. Lovecraft's horror stories actually to have harried their creator? For the sake of a good story, of course, but also because having the Old Ones--Cthulhu and the rest, the sight of which can reduce General Patton, John Wayne, and Muhammad Ali into blobs of gibbering terror--bedevil Lovecraft accounts for his hellish early life. His father had a mental breakdown and died in an asylum before H. P. reached school age. His possessive but distant mother, before her own breakdown and asylum death, forbade Lovecraft's wife, Sonia, to enter the family house. In the upshot, Sonia moved to Cleveland and never saw him again. Rodionoff posits that the key to Lovecraft's misery was a book of the Old Ones' lore. Failing to control him through it, they ruined his every happiness. Thanks to Keith Giffen, who recast Rodionoff's screenplay as a graphic novel that Argentine artist Enrique Breccia makes a spectacle of melting colors and sharp-featured figures, Lovecraft's misfortunes are our creepy pleasures. Ray Olson

Condition: Very Good. SIGNED by Hans Rodinoff! Not personalized (see photo)! Packed in a BOX with padding. Click on Photo to see actual item. Same or next day shipping (weekdays and Saturdays)! Ships from California. Pages: not written on, clean, bright, odor free. Dust Jacket: clean, bright, edges - very, small bumping at part of front top edge.