Tag: Gou Tanabe

From The Mountains of Madness Deluxe Edition to Arkham Horror, Just What Else Will A Scared Dark Horse Deliver?

To distinguish betweeen a work of Lovecraftian terror to cosmic horror, fans have to decide what is essential: Arkham Horror, The Mountains of Madness and many more iconic locales.

The Mountains of Madness Deluxe Edition HC
Available for purchase on Amazon USA

The months of July and August are shaping up to be quite the season to enjoy some Lovecraftian style terror with two releases! Early in July saw the release of The Mountains of Madness Deluxe Edition and this month, Arkham Horror! When it came to the latter, I had spend time to reacquaint myself with the game before really wanting to dive deep. It’s been a long time since I last played, and to enjoy it proper meant looking through the source material from start to end.

I must say that the former may well kickstart a set of reprints featuring Gou Tanabe’s fantastic artwork in this 7.5×10 inch format. There’s also Shadows of Innsmouth and The Hound & Other Stories to consider, but that will depend on how well sales go. Also, Call of Cthulhu (Amazon links) will hit shelves soon. If I said I’m waiting for a dual set release, this would be the reason; and if the other tomes aren’t reprinted to offer CoC and MoM up as a pair would have me interested in buying sooner than later.

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Gou Tanabe’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth Will Chill Come November 2023!

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth has been turned into a manga and it’ll be released at the end of the year.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth (Manga)
Available for pre-order on Amazon and at your local comic shop (Diamond Distributing)

Coming to comic shops Nov 15
and bookstores Nov 24, 2023

Gou Tanabe‘s next North American publication will be H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth! This edition is being published by Dark Horse Comics and it is set to arrive later this year. It also includes 12 pages in full colour with a tip-in title page embellished with silver ink.

As 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. Fans can chant and make sacred pacts in hopes for it to happen though.

For now, this manga series by Eisner and Harvey Award nominee will come complete in one volume. Zack Davisson has been handling the translation and what’ll be presented is in safe hands. All anyone has to do is look at his portfolio of books (Amazon link) about the supernatural side of Japan.

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A Cold, Terrible World is Hidden at the Mountains of Madness Vol 2 & What’s Next?

mountains of madness manga
Buy volume one and two
Mountains of Madness Vol 2 Book Cover on Amazon USA.

Gou Tanabe‘s adaptation of At the Mountains of Madness certainly delivers winter chills and shows this seemingly unadaptable work of HP Lovecraft can be tweaked for any cross media presentation. All it needs is some kind of resolution instead of a terrible revelation at the end.

Anyone who knows the original story will recall Danforth losing his sanity after seeing a Great Old One rise from the destruction. In what’s key to making that moment work is will this artist attempt to draw this cosmic entity? I won’t spoil what he sees. Instead, I can certainly say the city the Elder Things built may be gone for now, but I feel it also exists in an alternate dimension where Clive Barker’s most hailed creation (the Cenobites) lives!

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