And Pickmans Model doesn’t really look to be an improvement.
In the first pic, he seems handsome enough to me.
Now, I’m freaky lookin’.
After looking at the next to pictures linked, I see there is something a bit odd about his jaw & lips.
Is it just me, or does he look at least a little like fellow New Englander Fred Allen?
“Cthulhu was born ignorant and he’s been losing ground ever since!”
Marry me.
Have we got a high priest of Nyarlathotep who could conduct the twisted, otherworldly marriage rites?
There’s nothing weird or scary about him. He looks like a farmer to me. Stick a pair of overalls and a straw hat on him and he’s the spit and image of a sharecropper straight out of The Grapes of Wrath.
Only he’d have to be a New England farmer. A Down Easter, maybe.
“R’lyeh? Ya can’t GET the-ah from he-ah!”
(How do you say “R’lyeh” with a Maine accent?)
“Kennebunkport.” :eek: 
I’m glad I wasn’t drinking when I read that.
It’s funny how you can look at a photo of someone and come up with what their name “should” be. I will henceforth know him as “Chad Lovecraft.”
I think he looks like he’s got a wad of bubblegum in his mouth and the photo was taken a split second before he was about to blow a bubble.
I think it looks like a jaw tumor. I see it in several photos of him.
I can do no better than to quote a former California governor:
‘Its not a tumour’.
I’ve met people with this sort of underbite - they have had all their upper teeth removed and the resorption of the bone gives them a strong underbite, as well as messing with the fit of their dentures.
I even met a bloke of HPL’s vintage who as a 21st [?] birthday present had all his teeth removed and was given a complete set of choppers by his family. Dentistry was not that great and if you had to have one visit you’d want to make it count. He said it was a fairly common thing among his generation.
I did an oral report on Lovecraft in the eighth grade, I guess based on of that de Camp biography. It was pretty successful as such reports go, mainly because I laid it on thick about all the mean things his mom said about his appearance to her friends. No wonder he grew up writing eldritch fiction.
I’ve always thought that Aldous Huxley looked exactly like an Aldous Huxley should.
Somebody once pointed out the similarity in appearances between Lovecraft and Ernst Kaltenbrunner.
A while ago I finally picked up a copy of the CRiterion Collection’s edition of Carl Dreyer’s film Vampyr, a film made at the same time as Tod Browning’s Dracula, and an interesting take on the Vampire film. It’s been ripped off by several filmmakers (most notably Francis Ford Coppola, who took the idea of shadows moving independently of people from this film – regardless of what Sergio Aragones might think.) I’ve always wanted to see a decent copy of the film, because most editions are poor copies, with really bad translated titles.
In any event, I was really struck by how much the main character, played by Julian West, resembles Lovecraft. (They had to let him play the main character – he was bankrolling the production):
West in Vampyr and Lovecradt picures on the same webpage:
http://www.thingsinmovies.com/julian-west-baron-nicolas-de-gunzburg-in-vampyr/
Am I the only one who thinks that D.B. Cooper bore a somewhat uncanny resemblance to H.P. Lovecraft?
