Manga master Gou Tanabe has revealed his next adaptation of Lovecraft into graphic novel form. The first episode of his “The Dunwich Horror” adaptation will run in Japanese in Kadokawa’s Monthly Comic Beam on 12th October 2021. This new Lovecraft adaptation, one of a growing number by Tanabe, will eventually enjoy an English translation in single-volume graphic novel form. It usually takes him about nine months to produce such a serial, so we might expect the English translation by Halloween 2022 at best. Or 2023 if there are publisher delays. Although these days there are Manga Translators for your browser, which work on automatic.

Lovecraft’s tale, which has a fairly good claim to be the most famous horror tale of the 20th century, needs no introduction here. “Cthulhu” has more name-recognition today, true. But only because the monster-name is in the title, and thus the clueless will nod when it’s mentioned, rather than because it’s widely read and enjoyed by many.