Gou Tanabe's newest manga Short Stories about Dreamlands is a visual retelling of H.P. Lovecraft's tales set in his grotesquely fantastic Dream Realm.
Via November's issue of Monthly Comic Beam published by Kadokawa, Anime News Network has confirmed the release of Short Stories about Dreamlands -- Gou Tanabe's latest manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's classics. The manga's launch was announced on Thursday, with the first issue to be published in the Nov. 10 issue of Monthly Comic Beam. Tanabe has been adapting Lovecraft's works into manga since 2007, and the upcoming release of Short Stories about Dreamlands will continue to faithfully interpret Lovecraft's fantastic worlds and alternate realities.
Short Stories about Dreamlands will be based on the Dream Cycle stories, a series of short stories and novellas Lovecraft published between 1918 and 1932. These tales were set in the Dream Realm, a surreal world that people can only enter in their dreams. Lovecraft's Dream Realm is a mirror dimension to the waking reality, but with fantastic landscapes populated by otherworldly creatures and civilizations. Tanabe's manga adaptation is expected to capture Lovecraft's vision with his well-known style of heavily detailed and contrasted illustrations.
Gou Tanabe Is a Dedicated Lovecraftian Mangaka
Tanabe has established his niche in the manga industry as a faithful illustrator of Lovecraft classics. His ability to visualize the author's cosmic horror stories is also known among the larger Lovecraft fan base, which has members passionately discussing and debating how the author's work has been interpreted in pop culture throughout the decades. One of Tanabe's earliest works is an adaptation of Lovecraft's The Outsider, a 223-page manga released in June 2007. He also has another single-issue release published by Dark Horse Comics in August 2017; The Hound and Other Stories is a collection of manga adaptations of Lovecraft's that include "The Temple," "The Hound" and "The Nameless City."
Tanabe also illustrated Lovecraft's The Color Out of Space, published by Enterbrain in Monthly Comic Beam in 2015. Enterbrain likewise picked up his manga The Haunter of the Dark and At the Mountains of Madness, both published in 2016. Tanabe drew The Shadow Out of Time in 2018, and in 2019 adapted "The Call of Cthulhu," Lovecraft's definitive cosmic horror story. Tanabe's most recent works include The Shadow Over Innsmouth, which was completed in March 2021, and The Dunwich Horror, which ended in April.
Dark Horse will release a single omnibus volume of Tanabe's The Shadow Over Innsmouth translated in English, available in the U.S. this November.
Source: Monthly Comic Beam via Anime News Network