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H.P. Lovecraft's the Shadow Over Innsmouth (Manga)

by Gou Tanabe

A coastal town’s buried history resurfaces

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A coastal town’s buried history resurfaces

Gou Tanabe adapts Lovecraft’s tale of Innsmouth, a secluded Massachusetts settlement marked by a government assault in the winter of 1927–28. The manga centers on a young antiquarian whose search into the town’s past leads him to horrors that remain present, with the sea and its depths woven into the account. The source establishes both a historical rupture and a mystery rooted in what lies beneath the water. This edition also includes a silver-ink title page and 12 full-color pages.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Manga readers interested in adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft’s fiction
  • Readers drawn to horror tied to an isolated coastal setting and buried history

Themes

Coastal isolationBuried historyThe sea and the unknownGovernment violence

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Book overview

A new manga adaptation of the only H.P. Lovecraft story published as a book during his lifetime, by modern horror master Gou Tanabe!

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!

This book includes a tip-in title page in silver ink and 12 pages in full color!

"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, Venus in the Blind Spot)
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