The Courtyard is annotated in Alan Moore’s The Courtyard Companion published by Avatar Press and available for purchase via the publisher’s website.īelow are three approaches for readers interested in familiarizing themselves with some of the original Lovecraft stories that Moore and Burrows reference throughout. This Facts website annotates Neonomicon and Providence. Providence is both and prequel and sequel to both Courtyard and Neonomicon.

The Courtyard (text published 1995, comics adaptation published 2003).

No matter what Lovecraft one reads, it is worth reading Moore and Burrows three Lovecraftian works in the order they came out: Lovecraft stories that Moore and Burrows are referencing. Though Providence works on a surface level, it is a much richer experience when the reader has some sense of the earlier H.P. Providence is one of Alan Moore’s most thickly-referential works. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020.1942 Weird Tales cover featuring Lovecraft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmouth,” a key story to read before Moore and Burrows’ Providence – image source Individuation in Light of Forms and Information. Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels: A Critical Approach. Northampton, MA: Kitchen Sink Press, 1993. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2007. Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2001. Minneapolis: Minnesota University Press, 2016. Lovecraft to Ridley Scott.” The Age of Lovecraft. “Prehistories of Posthumanism: Cosmic Indifferentialism, Alien Genesis, and Ecology from H. Emergence and Embodiment: New Essays on Second-Order Systems Theory. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2007.

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Neonomicon and providence