Name: H.P. Lovecraft's the Call of Cthulhu (Manga)
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Author: Gou Tanabe
ISBN: 9781506741406

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H.P. Lovecraft's the Call of Cthulhu (Manga)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Gou Tanabe

Publisher

Dark Horse Manga

Language

English

Pages

288

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781506741406

Synopsis "H.P. Lovecraft's the Call of Cthulhu (Manga)"

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 original Japanese 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: 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. 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. Lovecraft's stories, and was the namesake of the acclaimed role-playing game system set within the Cthulhu Mythos. "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

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Gou Tanabe (田辺剛), nacido en Tokio en 1975, es un mangaka japonés conocido por sus adaptaciones literarias, especialmente de los relatos de H. P. Lovecraft. Inició su carrera a comienzos de los años 2000 y pronto fue reconocido por su capacidad para traducir al lenguaje visual las atmósferas densas y perturbadoras de los textos clásicos. Su trazo preciso, su dominio del claroscuro y su enfoque cinematográfico lo han convertido en uno de los principales referentes del manga de terror contemporáneo.

Entre sus obras más destacadas se encuentran El extraño y otras historias, Las montañas de la locura, El color que cayó del cielo y La sombra sobre Innsmouth, todas adaptaciones fieles al universo lovecraftiano. Tanabe logra capturar la tensión entre lo humano y lo desconocido, manteniendo una estética elegante y opresiva que combina belleza y horror en dosis exactas. Ejemplo de su obra: El extraño y otras historias.

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