Dark Horse has announced H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, a graphic novel collecting the full manga series by Gou Tanabe in one complete volume. Translated by Zack Davisson, the graphic novel arrives in comic shops on November 15th and in bookstores on November 24. The collection is based on the only H.P. Lovecraft story published as a book in the author’s own lifetime, The Shadow Over Innsmouth.
You might recall AIPT interviewed Davisson in 2019, who also translated Gou Tanabe’s H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness Vol. 1.
So what’s H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmout about?
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!
Check out the cover below.
MILWAUKIE, Ore., (March 3, 2023)— Dark Horse Manga presents H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth, set to arrive this fall. This graphic novel collects the full manga series by Eisner and Harvey Award nominee Gou Tanabe in one complete volume, translated by Zack Davisson. It also includes 12 pages in full color with a tip-in title page embellished with silver ink.
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!Based on the only H.P. 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.
The H.P. Lovecraft’s The Shadow Over Innsmouth manga will be in bookstores November 24, 2023 and in comic shops November 15, 2023. It is available for pre-order now on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and at your local comic shop and bookstore. It will retail for $29.99.
Praise for Gou Tanabe’s Lovecraft adaptations:
“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 adaptation 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
“Probably the best comic adaptation of Lovecraft to date.”—AiPT
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