You’ve read HP Lovecraft books, watched adaptations of his work on the big screen, and even played a few games featuring his creepy creations. But have you ever read an HP Lovecraft manga? Back in 2016, manga creator Gou Tanabe adapted Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, one of the most infamous stories by the author. This has been available in two volumes for a while, but for a better option, you can pick up a new deluxe edition of the manga that was released earlier this month.
The Mountains of Madness as illustrated by Gou Tanabe
This deluxe edition features wrap-around cover art with soft-touch lamination and spot gloss, 100 gsm wood-free paper, several pages in full color, a title page in silver ink, foil gilding on the edges of the book block, and a satin ribbon bookmark. Normally $50, you can pick it up for just $34 at Amazon. Inside, you’ll find illustrated nightmare fuel from Tanabe, who manages to bring Lovecraft’s stories to life with his artistic talents.
“In 1931, an expedition team arrives at a campsite in Antarctica to find its crew of men and sled dogs strewn and dead,” the plot synopsis reads. “Some are hideously mangled, as if in rage–some have been dissected in a curious and cold-blooded manner. One man is missing. But a still more horrific sight is the star-shaped mound of snow nearby, for under its five points is another mass grave–and what lies there is not remotely human.”