H.P. Lovecraft’s The Call of Cthulhu (Manga)

Translated by: Zack DavissonAdapted by: Gou TanabeIllustrated by: Gou Tanabe
H.P. Lovecraft’s most famous horror story, rendered in chilling detail by modern manga horror master Gou Tanabe!

The complete graphic novel in one volume, faithfully reproducing the originalJapanese release, featuring a title page in silver ink, eight pages in full color, and eerie metallic copper tones and spot color on the cover.What links together two bands of worshippers, one deep in the Arctic snows, one hidden in the bayous of Louisiana, is more than their shared practice of blood sacrifice.

It is the inhuman phrase they both chant:Phnglui mglwnafh Cthulhu Rlyeh wgahnagl fhtagnIn his house at Rlyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.Now these nightmares will disturb the sanity of Francis Thurston, a young man pursuing an investigation into the cult of Cthulhu that leads to the most forsaken spot in the vast Pacificand to Earths supreme terror, the risen corpse-city of Rlyeh.

First published in 1928,The Call of Cthulhu,rendered in chilling detail by modern manga horror master Gou Tanabe, is the most famous of all of H.P. Lovecrafts stories, and was the namesake of the acclaimed role-playing game system set within the Cthulhu Mythos.

I love H.P. LovecraftIt 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, Black Paradox)