Discover the other side

Abstract

Featuring books, comics, graphic novels, movie posters, and magazines, The Other Side is an exhibition that celebrates the bizarre and unearthly. Each room is dedicated to a genre (sci-fi, horror, or gothic fiction), particular character, or prominent author. If you enter the H.P. Lovecraft room, you will find a thorough documentation of the author’s legacy – from the cheap pulp magazines he published in while he was alive and virtually unknown, to the graphic posters of the blockbuster movies inspired by his work. Lovecraft was a recluse who tended to only leave his house after sunset and was never able to support himself through his writing. He died in poverty at the age of 46. After his death, his imaginings of the otherworldly – characters far more surreal than the human-like aliens described by other sci-fi writers – captured people’s imagination and inspired numerous works, from ‘Day of the Triffids’ to ‘The Thing’. The graphic art displayed in the collection captures the diversity of his bizarre creations.