port of call. Suffice to say we will no doubt end up mining the collected volumes of the HP Collection further in future articles. A particularly interesting trope one may notice, in these adaptations, our anonymous protagonist is often named in order to separate him from a past tense narrator and better embed into the plot scenario. Often the name given bears some significant trivial intrigue, such as Michael C. Smith's Skull Comics protag 'Mr. Derleth' (after August Derleth, author and second only to Lovecraft himself in terms of contribution to the overall Cthulhu mythos) or Bryan Moore's protag in the The H.P. Lovecraft Collection rendition of Cool Air 'Randolph Carter' (after the character of the same name in the Lovecraft short story 'The Statement of Randolph Carter'), incidentally Bryan Moore not only turned in a fine performance as said character, he also adapted screenplay and directed the whole feature. For the dreary basic prose that it is (in comparison to the wider HP catalogue) Cool Air seems to have nonetheless gathered significant respect over time, seeing so many attempts at its expansion through adaptation, you might even go as far as to call it a key inspiration for the melt movie genre ( The Incredible Melting Man, Body Melt, Street Trash etc. ). Having taken this brief moment to grasp at a silver lining or two, I'm afraid I still couldn't spare more than one and a half unknowable horrors... Come on back to the black planet with us