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by Gou Tanabe

Horror and disturbing manga reading list

A chart of recommended horror manga, compiled from various online sources. Includes examples of a wide range of horror themes, from eerie psychological horror to graphic gore. See the full web version of this list for more titles and links to MyAnimeList, Goodreads, and Wikipedia.

Lovecraft par Gou Tanabe - Celui qui Hantait les Ténèbres

Gou Tanabe

H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Vol.1 Adaptation and Artwork Tanabe Gou

Cognitive Dissonance

"Why are you reading your book backwards, hon?"

It's a question Walt asks me every so often, when he forgets that I'm an occasional Manga enjoyer. Part of me wants to answer like any aesthete of the genre - it's part of the authentic experience, obviously - but part of me also wonders if not flipping panels and re-binding these books to be read left to right isn't, in some way, a bit of a deliberately Elitist poke. I'm currently working through Tanabe Gou's H.P. Lovecraft-based material, starting with Dagon, and it feels like half of my brain gets it, and the other half is stamping its foot in the corner, demanding that the panel order makes sense. I'll pick up the thread and follow along easily for hours, then take a bio-break and come back with the impulse to open and read this thing left to right. For a split-second, I'm completely lost in the weeds - or worse, I've inadvertantly spoiled myself.

Thankfully, these are all stories I know well. There's no real risk of spoilers for A Shadow Over Innsmouth when you know what happens in Innsmouth - the real kick to Tanabe's oeuvre is in seeing him visually expand on concepts and critters that Lovecraft spends page after page finding synonyms for "I can't describe this shit, let me find the most verbose and descriptive ways I can think of to say that this thing cannot be described. Yes, I am aware of the paradox at play and I'm too busy trying to sound like Edgar Poe to care."

I also get a kick out of his character designs. Olmstead and most humans are thin-boned, fair-skinned and with very minimal character definition - almost yaoi material, honestly - and then there's his penstrokes for environment design and creature design. For these two, Tanabe acts like he's made it his lifelong mission to make Junji Ito feel like a minimalist. His Deep Ones are delightfully grotesque, and you really get the sense that for him, most human protagonists are mostly just reader vectors - details don't matter in the least.

Highly recommended, but get ready to have your early-sixties boyfriend go "Whuh?" in the absence of your late-thirties girlfriend to give him context...

Manga Adaptation of H.P. Lovecarft’s “The Shadow Over Innsmount” Gets Graphic Novel Release

Gou Tanabe’s manga version of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth is getting a translated graphic novel release from Dark Horse. The graphic novel will collect the entire manga series in one volume and will also include 12 pages in full color with a tip-in title page embellished with silver ink. The translation is by Zack Davisson.

“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!” (Dark Horse)

H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth manga releases to comic shops on November 15, 2023, and bookstores on November 24, 2023.

(Image via Dark Horse - Cover of H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth)

Gou Tanabe. HP Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories.

Dunwich no Kai (The Dunwich Horror), Gou Tanabe, based on a story by H. P Lovecraft, Comic Beam 2022/8

DALL-E is creating some of the coolest art I have ever seen hands down. Reminds me of a Gou Tanabe manga.

Lovecraft par Gou Tanabe - Celui qui Hantait les Ténèbres

Look upon Earth's darkest past in H.P. Lovecraft's at the Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe

Look upon Earth's darkest past in H.P. Lovecraft's at the Mountains of Madness by Gou Tanabe #comics #comicbooks #manga #graphicnovel

Gou Tanabe‘s Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness gets a much-requested, oversized hardcover Deluxe Edition treatment from Dark Horse Manga. Originally presented in two paperback volumes from Dark Horse Manga, the complete story is now collected in one Deluxe volume, oversized at 7×10″, spanning 632 pages printed on premium paper, and…

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H. P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Vol.1 Adaptation and Artwork Tanabe Gou