H.P. Lovecraft: The Alchemist #1 of 1

For over 600 years the male descendants of the royal Chabrillane family have all inexplicably perished on their 32^nd birthday. The legend of the Chabrillane curse supposedly began on the night Count Henri Chabrillane, mistakenly believing the alchemist Michel Mauvis had abducted his son Godfrey, throttled Michel to death. Michel’s son, Charles, called Le Sorcier (The Wizard), cursed the Chabrillanes, murdered the count, and escaped. Henri was 32 years old that night, and no male descendant of his has lived to see the age of 33. In 1832 the last Count de Chabrillane is about to turn 32.

Overview

Along with Edgar Allan Poe and Stephen King, Howard Phillips Lovecraft is considered one of America’s most innovative and popular American horror writers. The master of the weird tale during the first decades of the 20^th Century until his premature death in 1937, Lovecraft’s distinctive style and canon of work has influenced as many authors as the stories of Ernest Hemingway and Dashiell Hammett. Lovecraft’s earliest published work, Herbert West: Re-Animator, was turned into the 1985 cult classic film, Reanimator.