As reported in the pages of Variety today, Universal and Imagine Entertainment are gearing up for “The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft.”

Created by Mac Carter and Jeff Blitz, book borrows elements from Lovecraft’s life, such as his family’s struggle with mental illness and his own bouts with writer’s block, and transforms the young writer’s darkest nightmares into reality when he comes across a book that puts a curse on him and lets the evils he conjures up loose on the world.

As a long time fan and admirer of all things Lovecraft, I’ve been eager to see some respectable Lovecraftian adaptations hit the big screen, such as the long rumored Guillermo Del Toro dream project, “At The Mountains of Madness”, so with the announcement that Universal  optioned such a promising property with the creators attached as producer’s, my iron heart leapt and I praised Yog-Sothoth.

Then I found out that Ron Howard was aiming to direct.

All the same, The Strange Adventures of H.P. Lovecraft is set to hit shelves on April 8th from Image Comics and it looks like a winner to me.  I can’t wait to check it out before Opie gets his filthy mits all over it.