Exclusive: Dark Horse to Release Gou Tanabe's The Shadow Out of Time Manga (Updated)
Dark Horse Comics revealed on Tuesday that it has licensed Gou Tanabe's The Shadow Out of Time (Toki o Koeru Kage) manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft 's novella, and will ship the manga on December 16. Zack Davisson, who translated Dark Horse Comics' previous English releases of Tanabe's H.P. Lovecraft adaptations, is returning as translator for the manga. Steve Dutro is the letterer for the manga.Dark Horse describes the manga:Tanabe launched the manga in Kadokawa's Monthly Comic Beam in April 2018, and ended it in November 2018. The manga is part of a series of manga adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft's works by Tanabe. Dark Horse Comics published his manga of H.P. Lovecraft's The Hound and Other Stories in August 2017, which includes "The Hound," "The Temple," and "The Nameless City." Dark Horse Comics began releasing Tanabe's At The Mountains Of Madness manga in June 2019. The series was nominated for Best Comic by the 46th Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2019. Dark Horse has also released a single omnibus volume of Tanabe's The Shadow Over Innsmouth manga. Dark Horse also released Tanabe's The Call of Cthulhu manga in October 2024, which won the Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel award in this year's Bram Stoker Awards on June 14. Dark Horse's latest release of Tanabe's adaptations is The Colour Out of Space, which was released on July 1.Tanabe also released manga based on Lovecraft's The Haunter of the Dark, The Outsider, The Dunwich Horror, and The Shadow Out of Time.Tanabe launched Short Stories about Dreamlands manga based on H.P. Lovecraft's Dream Cycle stories in November 2023, and ended the series in April 2024. Tanabe launched the Lovecraft no Genei (The Lovecraft's Phantom) manga in Comic Beam in June 2024, and ended it in December 2024.Update: Dark Horse Comics told ANN that it made a mistake on the release date of the manga, with the correct date being December 16 instead of October.Source: Press release
