Showing posts with label the hound. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the hound. Show all posts

Saturday, December 16, 2017

Holiday Review: THE HOUND AND OTHER STORIES

Meanwhile, Dark Horse was largely busy this year with the American side of their business.  The manga side was mostly just keeping up with Berserk's most recent return from hiatus, but they also put out a single volume manga dealing with one of modern horror's favorite authors: H. P. Lovecraft.

H. P. LOVECRAFT'S THE HOUND AND OTHER STORIES (Maken - Lovecraft Kessakushu), adapted and artwork by Gou Tanabe.  First published in 2014 and first published in North America in 2017.




PLOT:

This collection covers three stories from Lovecraft's earlier days.  First there is "The Temple," where a crew of a Nazi U-boat is slowly driven to madness and mutiny by ancient forces.  Next is the titular story, where a pair of graverobbers steal a pendant and unleash a terrible supernatural creature in the process.  Finally there is "The Nameless City," where an explorer discovers a lost city in the desert, and barely escapes from the forces that destroyed it in the first place.