Hot damn, I didn’t have to crank this out at the last minute. And now it’s like 7:30, and I’ve still not had dinner. I was starving when I punched out, too. What gives?

This Questionable Content strip got me thinking about The Cask of Amontillado, which I reread right before doing this comic. (It’s not long.) Still holds up, even after I’ve significantly broadened my literary horizons. I still prefer Lovecraft, though. Poe is creepy, but Lovecraft’s writing has this realism which makes it downright disturbing. The first time I read The Call of Cthulhu, I couldn’t get to sleep for an hour afterward, at which point I had nightmares for the remainder of the night. So there you go: Lovecraft gave a grown man nightmares.

(In the unlikely event that you’ve never read any Lovecraft or Poe, I also recommend Herbert West: Reanimator and The Dunwich Horror by Lovecraft, and The Raven and The Tell-Tale Heart by Poe, as well as the aforementioned The Call of Cthulhu and The Cask of Amondillado.