Dark Horse’s Stunning Lovecraft Manga Adaptations Are Steeply Discounted

Of the five English releases of Lovecraft manga adaptations, At the Mountains of Madness is the only one that Dark Horse has given the Deluxe Edition hardcover treatment.

At the Mountains of Madness Deluxe Edition features wrap-around cover art with soft-touch lamination and spot gloss, 100gsm 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. The cover art above doesn’t really do this 626-page hardcover justice. If you check out the customer reviews on the listing, you’ll see a user-uploaded image of the mammoth deluxe edition, and it looks absolutely stunning.

This classic sci-fi story was originally published as a serialized novella in 1936 and centers on an Antarctic expedition. Like most Lovecraft tales, the story has unexpected and weird turns.

At the Mountains of Madness Deluxe Edition was published in English by Dark Horse in July 2024. The paperback editions released back in 2019, but the hardcover is cheaper than buying both volumes at the moment.

The Call of Cthulhu is often regarded as Lovecraft’s best work of horror fiction. Cthulhu has inspired countless games, movies, TV shows, songs, novels, etc. The story is centered around a cult and the ancient, terrifying creature known as Cthulhu.

Lovecraft’s original story, first published in Weird Tales magazine in 1928, is only around 40 pages, but Tanabe’s adaptation is 288 pages due to its dedication to rendering scenes from the story in exhaustive detail.

Though most of the book is colored in black, white, and gray, there are eight full-color pages. It also has silver ink on the title page, and the cover art follows the chaotic, haunting style of previous Lovecraft manga adaptations.

The Call of Cthulhu manga was originally published in Japanese in 2019 before being translated to English in October 2024.

The Colour Out of Space is a 194-page adaptation of Lovecraft’s 1927 short story featuring a blend of sci-fi and horror. Set in a fictional Massachusetts town named Arkham, the story follows an unnamed narrator who discovers that the all lifeforms in the area became infected by a mysterious poison following a meteorite strike. Like many Lovecraft stories, The Colour Out of Space includes monstrous creatures and deals with the loss of sanity.

The Colour Out of Space releases in paperback on July 1 and is available to preorder for $15.

Part of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos, The Shadow Over Innsmouth was originally released as a novella in 1931. Given the length of the source material, it’s no surprise that this is one of the longest manga adaptations in the series at 450 pages. It’s on sale for only $16.19–nearly 50% off–in paperback format thanks to a bonus 10% discount offered by Amazon.

Narrated by an unnamed student, the story is set in a seaport town in Massachusetts inhabited by some exceedingly peculiar folks. Once again, the narrator’s surreal interactions and the events he witnesses cause him to question himself and reality in general. It’s another one of Lovecraft’s signature character studies that is both thought-provoking and unsettling.

The Shadow Over Innsmouth’s manga adaptation was published in English in December 2023.

The Hound and Other Stories is a collection of three Lovecraft stories within the Cthulhu mythos. The 184-page paperback was the first manga adaptation by Tanabe. It released in Japanese in 2014 and became the first English adaptation in 2017. At $12.60, The Hound and Other Stories is a good, cheap place to start if you’re interested in giving the Lovecraft manga adaptations a try.