Dark Horse’s Exquisite H.P. Lovecraft Deluxe Manga Edition Now Available at Half Price

The hauntingly beautiful manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness is on sale for 50% off at Amazon. Dark Horse originally published the lengthy tale in two paperback volumes before reissuing it last July as a premium 600-plus page hardcover not unlike the publisher’s Berserk Deluxe Editions. The stunning At the Mountains of Madness Deluxe Edition retails for $50, but manga readers and Lovecraft fans can snag a copy for only $25 for a limited time.

Lovecraft manga adaptations were written and illustrated by Gou Tanabe and translated to English by Zack Davisson. At the Mountains of Madness Deluxe Edition was one of two translations Dark Horse published in 2024. In October, Dark Horse released a paperback edition of Lovecraft’s best-known work, The Call of Cthulhu, and you can grab that one for only $15.

$25.78 (was $50)

Of the four 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.

$15.30 (was $20)

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.

We’ve included a list of Tanabe’s Lovecraft manga below. Another standout is the 450-page adaptation of The Shadow Over Innsmouth. It was published in English by Dark Horse in December 2023. The Hound and Other Stories is a collection of various Lovecraft fiction. Originally published in Japanese in 2014, Dark Horse released the English translation in 2017.

For more Deluxe Edition manga, check out our recently published roundup highlighting a wide variety of premium hardcover editions of all-time manga classics.

H.P. Lovecraft Book Box Set

And if you want to read Lovecraft’s original prose stories, there are multiple eye-catching box sets and special editions up for grabs for discounts at Amazon. The H.P. Lovecraft Collection, a six-book hardcover set, is available for only $36 (was $60). This set includes At the Mountains of Madness, The Dunwich Horror, The Call of Cthulhu, The Shadow over Innsmouth, Polaris, The Color Out of Space, and Rats in the Walls.