Alan Moore's Neonomicon

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Explaining usually kills horror, so the fact Moore manages to keep it all is unbelievably impressive. But more than that is an underlying HP Lovecraft theme that is both salty and putrid that you can almost smell it in the book. This book confounds expectations - the reader could be forgiven for thinking it is a cross between "The X-files" and "Silence of the lambs". It is extremely graphic and the naked cultists are not hot either so gear up if you’re going to read this! If I wanted to see Japanese porn, I’d go watch it online rather than go looking for it in an Alan Moore comic!

This leads to a stunning realization in the climax when the two are discussing the concept of time where it’s revealed this child she is bearing is revealed to be the old god Cthulhu itself, which has insane potential ramifications for the sequel, Providence. Probably best not to read the blurb on the back cover as it does give away the plot of the Courtyard. I have posted a heads up at the appropriate moment, so it is possible to skip the section I’ve marked.It was pretty obvious, given that a lot of his stories detailed the inhuman offspring of these ‘blasphemous rituals’ that sex was probably involved somewhere along the line. Although I do not believe in censorship, I do think this particular piece should carry a warning on its cover. But there are two other recent mass murders and in both cases, killers with same past record –no history of violence—and the same present behavior.

and the dialogue by the cheerful rapists is rather brilliant: banal, chatty, blasé, even friendly and supportive at times - all of that contributes powerfully to the pure horror of the situation.He does this a lot in his League of Extraordinary Gentlemen comics but in Neonomicon the references are exclusively horror-based, most of them on HP Lovecraft’s work. Issue 1 goes on to show our unlikable cop protagonists infiltrate a punk show, where the cultists have mohawks. Because the dialogue in this book is horrendous - far too many “yeah”s punctuate the conversations as well as info dumps on Lovecraft and other pieces of horror esoterica make for very unrealistic-sounding speech. Brears and Lamper, two FBI agents, investigate ritual murders somehow tied to the final undercover assignment of Aldo Sax the once golden boy of the Bureau!