A Lovecraft Comic Book Cover Gallery II:
At the Mountains of Madness +
(Tanabe, 2015-present)

This is the second installment in our Lovecraft themed cover galleries. Below, we present covers from At the Mountains of Madness and other stories adapted by Guo Tanabe and published in the United States by Dark Horse.

1

  • title: At the Mountains of Madness (2019)
  • publisher: Dark Horse
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #1 of 2
  • release date: June, 2019
  • cover: A cover
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (298 pages)
  • excerpt:

    I am forced into speech because men of science have refused to follow my advice without knowing why. It is altogether against my will that I tell my reasons for opposing this contemplated invasion of the antarctic - with its vast fossil hunt and its wholesale boring and melting of the ancient ice caps. And I am the more reluctant because my warning may be in vain.

    Doubt of the real facts, as I must reveal them, is inevitable; yet, if I suppressed what will seem extravagant and incredible, there would be nothing left. The hitherto withheld photographs, both ordinary and aerial, will count in my favor, for they are damnably vivid and graphic. Still, they will be doubted because of the great lengths to which clever fakery can be carried. The ink drawings, of course, will be jeered at as obvious impostures, notwithstanding a strangeness of technique which art experts ought to remark and puzzle over.

    In the end I must rely on the judgment and standing of the few scientific leaders who have, on the one hand, sufficient independence of thought to weigh my data on its own hideously convincing merits or in the light of certain primordial and highly baffling myth cycles; and on the other hand, sufficient influence to deter the exploring world in general from any rash and over-ambitious program in the region of those mountains of madness. It is an unfortunate fact that relatively obscure men like myself and my associates, connected only with a small university, have little chance of making an impression where matters of a wildly bizarre or highly controversial nature are concerned.

    At the Mountains of Madness, H.P. Lovecraft (1931) (full text)

2

  • title: At the Mountains of Madness (2019)
  • publisher: Dark Horse
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #2 of 2
  • release date: November, 2019
  • cover: A cover
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (346 pages)
  • commentary: At the Mountains of Madness was written in February and March of 1931. It was first published in serialized form in the February, March, and April 1936 issues of Astounding Stories.

3

  • title: The Hound and Other Stories (2017)
  • publisher: Dark Horse
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • release date: July, 2017
  • cover: A cover
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (184 pages)
  • contents: "The Temple", "The Hound" & "The Nameless City"
  • excerpt:

    In my tortured ears there sounds unceasingly a nightmare whirring and flapping, and a faint distant baying as of some gigantic hound. It is not dream - it is not, I fear, even madness - for too much has already happened to give me these merciful doubts.

    St John is a mangled corpse; I alone know why, and such is my knowledge that I am about to blow out my brains for fear I shall be mangled in the same way. Down unlit and illimitable corridors of eldrith phantasy sweeps the black, shapeless Nemesis that drives me to self-annihilation.

    May heaven forgive the folly and morbidity which led us both to so monstrous a fate! Wearied with the commonplaces of a prosaic world; where even the joys of romance and adventure soon grow stale, St John and I had followed enthusiastically every aesthetic and intellectual movement which promised respite from our devastating ennui. The enigmas of the symbolists and the ecstasies of the pre-Raphaelites all were ours in their time, but each new mood was drained too soon, of its diverting novelty and appeal.

    Only the somber philosophy of the decadents could help us, and this we found potent only by increasing gradually the depth and diabolism of our penetrations. Baudelaire and Huysmans were soon exhausted of thrills, till finally there remained for us only the more direct stimuli of unnatural personal experiences and adventures. It was this frightful emotional need which led us eventually to that detestable course which even in my present fear I mention with shame and timidity - that hideous extremity of human outrage, the abhorred practice of grave-robbing.

    The Hound, H.P. Lovecraft (1922) (full text)

4

  • title: The Colour Out of Space (2015)
  • publisher: Beam Comix / Kadokawa
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • release date: 2015
  • cover: A cover dustjacket + obi
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (188 pages)
  • language: Japanese

5

  • title: The Haunter of the Dark (2016)
  • publisher: Beam Comix / Kadokawa
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • release date: 2016
  • cover: A cover dustjacket + obi
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (166 pages)
  • contents: "Dagon" & "The Haunter of the Dark"
  • language: Japanese

6

  • title: The Shadow Over Innsmouth (2023)
  • publisher: Dark Horse
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #1 of 1
  • release date: December, 2023
  • cover: A cover
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (450 pages)
  • contents: "The Shadow Over Innsmouth"

7

  • title: The Dunwich Horror (2023)
  • publisher: Beam Comix / Kadokawa
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #1 of 3
  • release date: March, 2023
  • cover: A cover, dustjacket & obi
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (212 pages)
  • contents: initial third of "The Dunwich Horror"
  • language: Japanese

8

  • title: The Dunwich Horror (2023)
  • publisher: Beam Comix / Kadokawa
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #2 of 3
  • release date: March, 2023
  • cover: A cover, dustjacket & obi
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (224 pages)
  • contents: middle third of "The Dunwich Horror"
  • language: Japanese

9

  • title: The Dunwich Horror (2023)
  • publisher: Beam Comix / Kadokawa
  • cover artist: Guo Tanabe
  • writer (adaptation): Guo Tanabe
  • artist: Guo Tanabe
  • issue: #3 of 3
  • release date: May, 2023
  • cover: A cover, dustjacket & obi
  • format: 5" x 7" digest (224 pages)
  • contents: final third of "The Dunwich Horror"
  • language: Japanese

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