H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth
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Average rating3.5
A new manga adaptation of the only H.P. Lovecraft story published as a book during his lifetime, by modern horror master Gou Tanabe! In the winter of 1927-28, the isolated coastal settlement of Innsmouth, Massachusetts was assaulted by U.S. government agents—its waterfront burned and dynamited, its people taken away to internment camps. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the horror uncovered by a young antiquarian who traveled to Innsmouth in search of rumors 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! This book includes a tip-in title page in silver ink and 12 pages in full color! “I love H.P. Lovecraft…It would be great to adapt him as a serialized manga, but I actually saw Gou Tanabe create a great adaption of H.P. Lovecraft's stories. Afterwards, I ended up not doing it because I thought I wouldn't be as good as Gou's version.”—Junji Ito (Uzumaki, Venus in the Blind Spot)
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Tanabe's art is beautiful and eerie, he really captures creeping tension and even manages to make the Deep Ones appear to writhe across the page. I initially thought the details were indistinct and some scenes a little too dark, it makes sense for Lovecraft's work: suggestions of unfathomable horror and dread.
Lovely stuff. Definitely gonna check out Tanabe's other works and I guess his next adaptation is Call of Cthulhu so looking forward to that.
Featured Series
5 primary books6 released booksGou Tanabe's Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's Masterpieces is a 13-book series with 5 primary works first released in 1927 with contributions by Zack Davisson, 田辺 剛, and 2 others.
Series
1 primary bookH.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow over Innsmouth is a 0-book series first released in 1936 with contributions by Zack Davisson, Gou Tanabe, and Sylvain Chollet.
