more and more sullen, more and more intelligent, more and more amphibious, more and more imitative - Great God!" Readers either shudder deep in their marrow at passages like this, or they roll their eyes. Lovecraft's effects rely on his prose, as in this description of the shoggoths, an ancient, obscurely evil species from outer space: "viscous agglutinations of bubbling cells - rubbery fifteen-foot spheroids infinitely plastic and ductile. You have to be an awfully self-confident artist to believe you can infuse a bunch of tentacles with world-shaking menace. Tanabe's approach is so spot-on, it makes every other attempt to draw Lovecraft (of which there have been no shortage over the years) seem ill-advised.īut then, Lovecraft is a particularly knotty property - the guy's main villain is a giant octopus, for Pete's sake. At least, that's how it feels after reading Gou Tanabe's take on Lovecraft's novella At the Mountains of Madness. There are a lot of different ways to adapt fiction into graphic-novel form, but there may only be one way to adapt the work of H.P. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title H.P Lovecraft's at the Mountains of Madness 2 Author Gou Tanabe
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