H.P. Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark (Manga)
$27.57
- Paperback
170 pages
- Release Date
27 April 2027
Summary
A young horror writer is obsessed with an abandoned church where the Starry Wisdom sect once prayed to something unnamable. What terrible revelations lie within?
Robert Blake is dead—killed by lightning through an oddly unbroken window, the features of his half-burned face set in a cadaveric spasm. Surely his final look was not one of real fear…after all, he was a writer and artist of imagined horrors and weird fiction. It must have been that imagination too that led young Blake to ex…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781506746333 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1506746330 |
| Author: | Gou Tanabe, Zack Davisson |
| Publisher: | Dark Horse Comics,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Dark Horse Comics,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 170 |
| Release Date: | 27 April 2027 |
| Weight: | 369g |
| Dimensions: | 130mm x 184mm |
| Series: | H.P. Lovecraft Manga |
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Critics Review
Praise for Gou Tanabe:
“Tanabe’s approach is so spot-on, it makes every other attempt to draw Lovecraft (of which there have been no shortage over the years) seem ill-advised.”—Etelka Lehoczky, NPR
“Possibly the best adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft to the medium of comics.”—Tom Shapira, The Comics Journal
“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, Black Paradox)
Gou Tanabe
Gou Tanabe was born in 1975 in Tokyo. As a child, he became a fan of yokai (supernatural creatures from Japanese tradition) when his father bought him Shigeru Mizuki’s classic manga GeGeGe no Kitaro, and by junior high he was already designing his own demons in sketchbooks. An encounter with the work of creature modeler Yasushi Nirasawa in Hobby Japan magazine started Tanabe’s interest in horror movies and the special effects behind them as well.
Tanabe began his professional manga career with a short stint working as an assistant, but made his solo debut in 2003 with Sunakichi, published in Comic Beam magazine; the story won the magazine’s New Faces Award, and Tanabe would soon become associated with Comic Beam, which began to regularly feature his Lovecraft manga staring in 2007 with an adaptation of the short story “The Outsider.”
In addition to receiving nominations for three Eisner Awards and two Harvey Awards to date, Gou Tanabe has received critical acclaim in France, winning the prestigious Best Series award in 2020 at the Angoulême International Comics Festival, as well as in his native Japan with a Jury Selection Award at the 2018 Japan Media Arts Festival.
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