| Schedule: | Monthly |
| Format: | Mini-series |
| Limited: | y |
| Genre: | Dark fantasy Horror comics |
| Publisher: | Avatar Press |
| Date: | September – November 2003 |
| Issues: | 3 |
| Writers: | Alan Moore Antony Johnston |
| Artists: | Juan Jose Ryp Bryan Talbot Mike Wolfer Val Semeiks Jacen Burrows Hunt Emerson Oscar Zarate Marat Mychaels |
| Creators: | Alan Moore |
| Tpb: | Yuggoth Cultures |
| Isbn: | 1-59291-027-0 |
| Subcat: | Avatar Press |
| Sort: | Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths |
Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths is a three-issue comic book miniseries presenting work written by comics writer Alan Moore, based on the writings of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft. It was published by Avatar Press in 2003.
After Dave Mitchell of Oneiros Books asked Alan Moore to contribute to The Starry Wisdom, a collection of new writings inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Moore came up with the idea to do an entire book, to be called Yuggoth Cultures, based on Lovecraft's Fungi From Yuggoth cycle of poems. Unfortunately, Moore lost the only copies of most of the pieces he had written for the book in a London taxi cab. Moore submitted a short story entitled "The Courtyard" as his entry for The Starry Wisdom, but suspended work on Yuggoth Cultures. "So the project went 'on hold,'...I kind of shoved it in the back of a drawer and forgot about it," he told Avatar editor-in-chief William Christensen in an interview included in Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths No. 3. The two other surviving pieces from Yuggoth Cultures, the poems "Recognition" and "Zaman's Hill," were included in the 1995 book Dust: A Creation Books Reader.
Avatar's 2003 anthology miniseries Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths presented Antony Johnston's comics adaptation of "Recognition" and "Zaman's Hill" as well as two of Alan Moore's songs, "Litvinoff's Book" and "Me and Dorothy Parker", the never-before-seen "Nightjar," and reprints of many of Alan Moore's short comics.
The series was published as a 3-part black and white monthly comic:
Alan Moore's The Courtyard was originally scheduled for appearances in this collection but was turned into its own separate series.
The three issue miniseries and more were collected into a trade paperback, Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths (Avatar, 334 pages, 2006 softcover,, hardcover,), containing
The Nightjar story was spun off into a four-part mini-series written by Johnston with art by Max Fiumara, plus a one-shot entitled Nightjar: Hollow Bones. The basis was the story as seen in Yuggoth Cultures #1 with some additional notes from Bryan Talbot, but the bulk of the story was created by Johnston.[2] [3]
Johnston would later produce more work in the Cthulhu Mythos, for Avatar, under the title Yuggoth Creatures.[4] [5] [6] All three issues are included in the collected Alan Moore's Yuggoth Cultures and Other Growths.