History Webcomic / LovecraftIsMissing

* AuthorExistenceFailure: With his passing in November 2014, Latham's wife has expressed the desire to try to continue the series through the help of writers and artists that her husband knew.

[[http://lovecraftismissing.com/ Previously updated on weekly on Fridays, with hiatuses between chapters.]] Sadly, [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=8553 due to the author's death]] the future of the series is uncertain, although his wife has stated the desire to continue with the help of friends presumably well-versed in the genre.

Currently the site hosting it is down, with no clear idea of when or if it will return.

* AkashicRecords: Dr. Kartophilus [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=7179 uses them]].

* BodyHorror: [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=5283 Eeep]].
* [[spoiler: BodySnatcher]]

* DeliberateValuesDissonance: Done for [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=2880 period detail]] and to evoke Lovecraft's UnfortunateImplications.

* FanDisservice: [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=1081 Naked]] [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=4472 women]]. Yeahhh. . .

* GenreSavvy: Orwin, occasionally. Feels like he's in one of his own stories and will [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=899 critique villains' lines]].

* HumanoidAbomination: Tom and [[spoiler: [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=397 Dr. Kartophilus]].]] As well as Dr. Kartophilus's butler Heeg.

* SceneryGorn: Some [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=89 beautifully]] [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=486 illustrated]] slums.
* ShoutOut: Lots, especially to Lovecraft's own work.
** Also [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=270 Robert E. Howard]] and [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=4759 Charlotte Perkins Gilman/Gaston Le Roux]].
** At the end of mankind, [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=7282 Erich Zann]] plays music in ''Literature/TheNightLand''.

* WhamEpisode: [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=920 "Tentacles"]], when things start to get [[EldritchAbomination messy]].
** And again in [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=7345 "Intruder"]]: Father Jackey, in a flashback in 1908, meets Erich Zann [[spoiler: and [[MindScrew watches Kartophilus from 1926 read Zann's mind in person while attacking him in the past as an apparition]]]].

* CthulhuMythos

''LovecraftIsMissing'' is a {{webcomic}} by Larry Latham, with a simple premise: it is the autumn of 1926, and [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin horror author H. P. Lovecraft is not where he's supposed to be.]] His friend-by-post and fellow writing enthusiast Orwin Battler has traveled from Oklahoma to see him; occult expert Father Jackey is after missing pages from a [[TomeOfEldritchLore rare book]] most recently in Lovecraft's possession; University librarian Nan Mercy is after the book pages as well as [[spoiler: personal revenge against Lovecraft's probable kidnappers]].

!!LovecraftIsMissing contains examples of:

* CosmicHorrorStory

* TownWithADarkSecret: Tough Luck, Oklahoma is revealed to [[spoiler: have its very Cthulhu cult that meets secretly in an old barn]].

[[http://lovecraftismissing.com/ Updates Fridays, with a hiatus between chapters.]] Sadly, [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=8553 due to the author's death]] the future of the series is uncertain.

* AuthorExistenceFailure: With his passing in November 2014, Latham's wife has stated her desire to try to continue the series through the help of writers and artists that her husband knew.

[[http://lovecraftismissing.com/ Updates Fridays, with a hiatus between chapters.]] Sadly, [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=8459 due to a recent announcement of cancer]] the future of the series is uncertain at the moment.

[[http://lovecraftismissing.com/ Updates Fridays, with a hiatus between chapters.]]

* HumanoidAbomination: Tom and [[spoiler: Dr. Kartophilus' freaky butler, [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=397 Heeg]].]]
** Also that . . . thing that tried to kill Nan and Orwin in "Tentacles."
*** That was also Heeg.

** At the end of mankind, [[http://lovecraftismissing.com/?p=7282 Erich Zann]] plays music in TheNightLand.

* GambitPileup: Kartophilus and Dr. Munoz are cooperating on the same immediate goal with different final purposes in mind and are discretely sabotaging each other in order to make sure it comes out the way they want. [[spoiler:And Tobin and Mrs. Mercy have plans for both of them.]] They seem to be taking advantage of the Aletheia cult in order to do so, and it's not clear what role the Malones play in this.

* BadassPreacher: Father Jackey, if there's no actual ChurchMilitant involved. [[spoiler: Orwin and Nan's inquiry revealed that the local Catholic diocese has never heard of him]].
* BedlamHouse: Morrowbie-Jukes Asylum and Sanatorium. [[spoiler:The inmates are kept mostly as HumanResources.]]

* {{Cult}} / ReligionOfEvil: Lots and lots of Cthulhu cults and other assorted EdlritchAbomination worship.

* EldritchAbomination: Besides the assorted Cthulhu statues, which are figuring more prominently into the plot (surprise of surprises), Dr. Kartophilus is probably one.

* EvilMatriarch: [[spoiler: Nan's mother]].

* BedlamHouse: Morrowbie-Jukes Asylum and Sanatorium.

* {{Cult}} / ReligionOfEvil: Lots and lots of Cthulhu cults and other assorted CosmicHorror worship.

True to the work of the [[HPLovecraft inspiration himself]], [[CosmicHorrorStory determination is their least useful and most counterproductive asset]].

* AscendedFanboy: Orwin Battler, pulp writer who finds himself in another pulp writer's universe.

* NewAge: On the surface, Aletheia appears to be a bunch of harmless flakes who believe in things like [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/UsefulNotes/NewAge past lives as Atlantean princesses]].