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Toki wo Koeru Kage

Also known as The Shadow Out of Time.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Sci-Fi

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee was once a respectable professor of political economy. Though he taught at Miskatonic University in Arkham, his temper was of a reasonable sort, not at all interested in the occult. That has changed. In 1908, standing in the lecture hall, Professor Peaslee saw his classroom suddenly twist into an uncanny, alien vista, and he collapsed unconscious.

What awoke was not the Nathaniel Peaslee his colleagues knew—at least, not his mind. Now associating with strange people, and speaking oddly of time, distant lands, and concepts of existence, his travels and research disturbed those who knew him, including his friends, wife and even children. It was not until 1913 that Professor Peaslee came back to his right mind, with no memory of his strange sabbatical. His search for understanding of those five missing years leads him—and readers—on a journey across the globe to a place where a long-vanished race still casts their shadow out of time.



Tags: Seinen , Cosmic Horror , Travel , Foreign , Historical , Aliens , Time Manipulation , Amnesia

Yami ni Hau Mono: Lovecraft Kessakushuu

Also known as H.P. Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Horror

The story (which is based on the diaries of its protagonist) is set in Providence, Rhode Island, Lovecraft's hometown and a favorite locale for his fiction. The protagonist, Robert Blake—a young man with an interest in the occult—becomes fascinated by a large disused church set on Federal Hill in Providence's west—the Italian and migrant quarter—which he can see from his lodgings in Providence's Upper East side. His researches reveal that the church has a sinister history involving a cult called the Church of Starry Wisdom and is dreaded by the local inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil.

Note: This volume also includes an adaptation of Lovecraft's short story "Dagon".

Tags: Seinen , Cosmic Horror , Foreign , Primarily Adult Cast , Male Protagonist , Classic Literature

The Outsider: Gou Tanabe Extra Works

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror

A re-release of The Outsider with additional stories that have never been published elsewhere. Included stories: The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft The House with the Mezzanine by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov Twenty-six Men and a Girl by Maxim Gorky A Barnstormer on Pont-Neuf by Carib Song Kasane Souetsu Goroshi: Episode 1 by Sanyutei Encho Ju-ga by Gou Tanabe Zoku Ju-ga by Gou Tanabe

Tags: Anthology , Cosmic Horror , Tragedy

Maken Lovecraft Kessakushuu

Also known as H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories.

Status: Finished
Genres: Fantasy , Horror

A pair of decadent young men pursue the abhorrent thrill of grave robbing...a German submarine's crew is driven mad by the call of an underwater temple...an explorer in the Arabian desert discovers a hideous city older than mankind. This moody and evocative manga gets back to the dark foundations of the Cthulhu Mythos, adapting three of H.P. Lovecraft's original stories that first shaped the outlines of cosmic horror!



1-2. Shinden (The Temple)
Maken (The Hound)
Na mo naki Miyako (The Nameless City)

Tags: Seinen , Anthology , Cosmic Horror , Historical , Classic Literature

The Outsider

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

A collection of stories:

The Outsider, by H.P. Lovecraft
The House with the Mezzanine, by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Twenty-six Men and a Girl, by Maxim Gorky
Ju-ga, Original story by Tanabe Gou

Tags: Cosmic Horror , Anthology

Kyouki no Sanmyaku nite: Lovecraft Kessakushuu

Also known as At the Mountains of Madness.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Horror , Supernatural

The story details the events of a disastrous expedition to the Antarctic continent in September 1930, and what was found there by a group of explorers led by the narrator, Dr. William Dyer of Miskatonic University. Throughout the story, Dyer details a series of previously untold events in the hope of deterring another group of explorers who wish to return to the continent.



Notes: Nominated to the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.

Tags: Seinen , Lost Civilization , Aliens , Aviation , Foreign , Cosmic Horror , Snowscape , Mythology , Gore , Classic Literature , Educational , Historical , War , Slavery , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Mejou Shigatai Mono: Lovecraft Kessakushuu

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Supernatural

The series is based on the works of H.P. Lovecraft, with a focus on the recurring character Randolph Carter in H.P. Lovecraft's works that Kadokawa states is modeled after Lovecraft himself. Note: this includes one extra chapter.

Tags: Seinen , Male Protagonist , Cosmic Horror

Cthulhu no Yobigoe

Also known as Call of Cthulhu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn - "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." This Monthly Horror Magazine fan favorite is based on the cosmic horror Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft. Main stories like The Call of Cthulhu and The Dunwich Horror are comicalized by Satoshi Ogawa, the genius representing Japanese science fiction to the world!



Tags: Foreign , Cosmic Horror , Classic Literature , Lost Civilization

Cthulhu no Yobigoe: Lovecraft Kessakushuu

Also known as H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu.

Status: Finished
Genres: Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Supernatural

What links together two bands of worshippers, one deep in the Arctic snows, one hidden in the bayous of Louisiana, is more than their shared practice of blood sacrifice. It is the inhuman phrase they both chant: Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn—“In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.” Now these nightmares will disturb the sanity of Francis Thurston, a young man pursuing an investigation into the cult of Cthulhu that leads to the most forsaken spot in the vast Pacific…and to Earth's supreme terror, the risen corpse-city of R'lyeh.



Tags: Cosmic Horror , Seinen , Cult , Foreign , Ships , Classic Literature , Kaiju , Primarily Male Cast , Primarily Adult Cast

Uzumaki

Also known as Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Horror , Mystery , Psychological , Romance , Supernatural

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. It manifests itself in small ways: seashells, ferns, whirlpools in water, whirlwinds in air. And in large ways: the spiral marks on people's bodies, the insane obsessions of Shuichi's father, the voice from the cochlea in your inner ear. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurouzu-cho are pulled ever deeper, as if into a whirlpool from which there is no return...



Notes:
Includes the extra chapter "Uzumaki Tokubetsu-hen: Ginga", which was included in editions later released.
Chosen by the American Library Association (ALA) as one of the Top Ten Great Graphic Novels for Teens 2009. (Vol. 1)

Tags: Tragedy , Body Horror , Cosmic Horror , Seinen , Survival , Female Protagonist , Gore , Episodic , Philosophy , Lost Civilization , Rural , Cannibalism , Urban Fantasy , Heterosexual , Suicide , Curses , Bullying , Demons , Unrequited Love , Cult , Yandere