Alan Moore's Neonomicon

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Selective Obliviousness: Robert is insistent on trying to ignore the supernatural, rationalising them as psychological episodes. He even manages it retroactively after his body-swap rape, though by this point he is clearly in denial and suppresses his traumatic memories. Ironically his obliviousness is shattered not by seeing something inhuman, but by realising in a conversation with Lovecraft the latter's ties to Stella Sapiente.

Dramatic Deadpan: Agent Brears uses this when she visits Sax for the second time. Seeing as how she's using it to inform him that her partner was killed by the Dagon cultists, who went on to gang-rape her and turn her over to a Deep One, who raped her repeatedly, in the process of which she became impregnated with C'thulhu, but she's decided that humans are basically "vermin" so she's more or less okay with the impending death of the species, the effect is terrifying. Sax himself is terrified. City of Adventure: Manchester, the Providence analogue for Arkham in a very horror-styled take. It is the location of Saint Anselm's College (Miskatonic University) which has Hali's Booke of Wisdom (aka the Necromonicon), it has Hezekiah Massey and her Witch-House, Hector North Reanimator is faculty there, and the meteor from The Color Out of Space fell in the same location, and of course Elspeth Wade lives there.In Issue 9 Henry Annesley deliberately tries to convince Robert of this, unlike previous characters who are more subtly covert or go with Robert's self delusions. Weird-fiction giant Lord Dunsany and of course, H. P. Lovecraft himself finally makes an appearance in Issue 8. Issue 12 has a fictional version of Lovecraft's real-life biographer S. T. Joshi attending the birth of Chtulhu.

Nobody Poops: Germaine defecates in a sink (off-panel, but the feces is shown), and Brears urinates by the side of the pool while in captivity (on-panel). The latter becomes plot-relevant when the Deep One smells (and tastes) her urine, and discovers that she's pregnant. The Miskatonic University also holds the Latin translation by Olaus Wormius, printed in Spain in the 17th century. Joshi, S. T.; David E. Schultz (2001). An H. P. Lovecraft Encyclopedia. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press. ISBN 0-313-31578-7. Immortality Immorality: Suydam and Dr North are heavily implied to have killed people in their attempts to gain further life, and Etienne Roulet has been stealing people's bodies for centuries, of which only the most recent is Elspeth.

Dr North note inspired by Herbert West of Herbert West-Reanimator is attempting the fourth with his experiments, but is largely unsuccessful so far. But Not Too Gay: In the Commonplace Book, Robert notes that he would ideally like to talk about the secret world of America's gay life but coat it in a metaphor that would be broad enough to get the same idea across. This is why he is drawn towards the occult and the Stella Sapiente since he finds a parallel to his own situation in the survival and maintenance of an occult tradition in WASP-America. Dissonant Serenity: Brears comments that the Fetus Terrible is probably controlling her mind in some way, given that she's not freaked out about it.