Title Announcement

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We are extremely excited to announce that we are publishing a fine press edition of

H P Lovecraft's THE DUNWICH HORROR.

Of all HPL's stories, it has always been The Dunwich Horror which has resonated most with me and we are going to mark the 100th anniversary of it being penned with our most ambitious production to date regarding traditional fine-press production.

The book will be presented in 3 states and printed monotype by Nomad Letterpress. The lettered state will be bound by a master-bookbinder who we are proud to be collaborating with for the first time.

I am a huge fan of the illustrator Lee Brown Coye, who is most famous for his incredible Arkham House covers of Lovecraft's work which include Dagon, The Dunwich Horror, 3 Tales of Horror and Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.

I have also long dreamed of working on this title which for me is his absolute masterpiece. The Dunwich Horror therefore will be illustrated with linocuts, including the reduction linocut technique printing in two colours and hand coloured linocuts which will be inspired by and evoke the primitive, graphic qualities of Coye's work and I believe inhabit the unique atmosphere of Lovecraft's unique landscape.

In his short essay on Coye in the glorious Centipede Press edition 'A Lovecraft Retrospective', Stefan Dziemiancowicz writes...

" 'The true epicure in the terrible, to whom a new thrill of unutterable ghastliness is the chief end and justification of existence, esteems most of all the ancient, lonely farmhouses of backwoods New England; for there the dark elements of strength, solitude, grotesueness and ignorance combine to form the perfection of the hideous'

When H.P. Lovecraft wrote this memorable opening line for his story 'The Picture in the hous' in 1920, he was articulating an idea that runs through much of his fiction: how in the civilized world , there are still pockets of primivitism where ancient horrors, born of superstion and savagery, maintain a foothold. He might just as well have been appraising the work of Lee Brown Coye (1907-1981), the artist who captured, better than any other, the horrific potential of the primitive in Lovecraft's writing."

This title is scheduled for pre-order around August 2027, and publication late 2027/early 2028.