INNSMOUTH : The Lost Drawings of Mannish Sycovia (Signed & Numbered Ltd. Hardcover Edition) by NELSON, MARK A. : SMITH, STEPHEN D. (authors) : LOVECRAFT, H.P. (inspiration) - 2017

Lombard, IL: Alaxis Press, 2017. Book. Illus. by NELSON, MARK A. . New. Hardcover. Signed by Contributors. 1st Edition. HB - 1st. Print (Signed & Numbered Ltd. Edition 182 of 300) - NEW/NEW with Signed Postcard & Bookmark - H.P. Lovecraft has become a legend among those of us with "darker" sensibilities. His Cthulhu mythos has inspired writers as diverse as Stephen King and William S. Burroughs. But what if there was more to Lovecraft's stories? What if his settings were not so imaginary. Renowned illustrator and comic artist, Mark A. Nelson, has spent years researching legends surrounding the "fictional" town of Innsmouth, and discovered, on a surprisingly fruitful visit to the Miskatonic University Library in Arkham, Mass, evidence that an artist named Mannish Sycovia, traveled from revolutionary Russia to Innsmouth in 1914, to create portraits of the Innsmouth elite, under the patronage of Mr. Barnabas Marsh. Marsh was the cornerstone of the Innsmouth high society, and heir to the Obed Marsh Gold Refining business. His increasingly strange behavior and his infrequent ventures out of Innsmouth helped to alienate him from those closest to him. Following the 1927 demolition of the town by the U.S. Army following an aggressive bootlegging raid, the artist was never heard from again. Only rumors and fishy stories remained until this body of work was uncovered....