“Tanabe is an expert in rendering highly detailed landscapes that translate to a palpable sense of foreboding. “Probably the best comic adaptation of Lovecraft to date.”-AiPT Afterwards, I ended up not doing it because I thought I wouldn’t be as good as Gou’s version.”-Junji Ito Lovecraft…It would be great to adapt him as a serialized manga, but I actually saw Gou Tanabe create a great adaptation of H.P. Praise for Gou Tanabe’s Lovecraft adaptations: Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth manga will retail for $29.99. Lovecraft story published as a book in the author’s own lifetime, The Shadow Over Innsmouth is a new adaptation by modern manga horror master Gou Tanabe. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the horror uncovered by a young antiquarian who travelled to Innsmouth in search of rumours from the town’s dead past, only to find them still very much alive…and find truths lying under water deeper and colder than any earthly grave!īased on the only H.P. government agents-its waterfront burned and dynamited, its people taken away to internment camps. In the winter of 1927-28, the isolated coastal settlement of Innsmouth, Massachusetts was assaulted by U.S. All anyone has to do is look at his portfolio of books (Amazon link) about the supernatural side of Japan. Zack Davisson has been handling the translation and what’ll be presented is in safe hands. Fans can chant and make sacred pacts in hopes for it to happen though.įor now, this manga series by Eisner and Harvey Award nominee will come complete in one volume. It also includes 12 pages in full colour with a tip-in title page embellished with silver ink.Īs for where Call of Cthulhu is (as I reported years ago), that’s because it’s been serialised in the magazine, Comic Beam, and there’s no word if that will get put into a trade paperback and translated too.

Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth! This edition is being published by Dark Horse Comics and it is set to arrive later this year. Gou Tanabe‘s next North American publication will be H.P. Available for pre-order on Amazon and at your local comic shop (Diamond Distributing)

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