The father of cosmic horror that gave readers such monsters as Cthulhu was writer H.P. Lovecraft, whose most famous tale “The Call of Cthulhu,” is a short story written in 1926 published in Weird Tales, a pulp magazine in February 1928.

Inspired by his grandfather’s Gothic stories and Edgar Allen Poe, among others, Lovecraft’s stories tell stories of men unlocking forbidden and indescribable knowledge, fate, civilizations in decline, and other dark themes. Many comic creators have followed in Lovecraft’s steps with their own takes on this genre, writing stories in the same vein, adding the visual component to the written word.

They are:

1. Ichabod Jones: Monster Hunter
2. Gideon Falls
3. Dynamite Comics’ Re-Animator
4. Dr. Herbert West & Astounding Tales in Medical Malpractice
5. Revival
6. Nameless
7. Harrow County
8. The Courtyard/Neonomicon/ Providence
9. The Wake
10. Locke & Key