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Gou Tanabe's Manga Adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu Story Wins Bram Stoker Award
posted on by Joanna Cayanan
Dark Horse Comics licensed the manga and released it in July 2024. Dark Horse describes the story:
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: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn—“In his house at R'lyeh 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 Pacific…and to Earth's supreme terror, the risen corpse-city of R'lyeh.Mysteries that teeter on the edge of sanity come alive with the complete story in this single volume, containing eight full-color pages and a tip-in title page featuring silver ink.
The Bram Stoker Awards are awarded by the U.S. Horror Writers Association to honor horror and dark fantasy works. Winners are selected by active members of the Association.
Tanabe launched the manga in May 2019 in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Beam magazine, and ended the manga in November 2019.
The manga is part of a series of manga adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's works by Tanabe. Dark Horse Comics published his manga of H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories in August 2017, which includes "The Hound," "The Temple," and "The Nameless City." Dark Horse Comics began releasing Tanabe's At The Mountains Of Madness manga in June 2019. The series was nominated for Best Comic by the 46th Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2019. Dark Horse has also released a single omnibus volume of Tanabe's The Shadow Over Innsmouth manga.
Tanabe also released manga based on Lovecraft's The Colour Out of Space, The Haunter of the Dark, The Outsider, The Dunwich Horror, and The Shadow Out of Time. Dark Horse will release The Colour Out of Space on July 1.
Tanabe launched Short Stories about Dreamlands manga based on H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle stories in November 2023, and ended the series in April 2024. Tanabe launched the Lovecraft no Genei (The Lovecraft's Phantom) manga in Comic Beam in June 2024, and ended it in December 2024.
Sources: Zack Davisson's Bluesky account, Book Riot
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