Many works of Fiction can and HAVE gotten made into either: Anime and/or Manga. And though some could easily say that those stories DONT translated well into the NEW Medium H.P. Lovecrafts At the Mountains of Madness does a FANTASTIC job at showing off the haunting world of a lone StudyExpedition to the Antarctic and the DREAD OF WHAT BECOMES OF THEM AFTER their THIRST for Knowledge takes them oneaftertheother deeper and DEEPER into the Snowy Mountains secrets.... TakaliLi TakaliLi H.P. Lovecraft is of the MOST renowned ScienceFiction Authors of the 20th Century. With his suspenseful stories and Mythos connected to At least AT THE TIME weird and UNHOLY creatures and the younger and brave people who we follow through the stories that ENCOUNTER these monsters and how their encounters leave LASTING IMPACTS on the characters psyches to live with from them on Mix that we the GORGOUSE art of Gou Tanabe who usually has a talent for writing manga based on Lovecrafts worlds and Lore and has the talent to create the most BEAUTIFUL artwork to bring to life the REALISTIC lookandfeel to the grittiness and dread of paranormal hauntings for Lovecrafts characters to explore. 220https://meo.comick.pictures/21tdUVvMdK76ntS.png 220https://meo.comick.pictures/25ejA64LFiHT6X.png At the Mountains of Madness is a story about a simple College Expedition in the early 1900s having sailed and landed at the Arctic to pay honor and expand on the findings and knowledge of other previous voyages before them to learn what further lays in the more CENTRAL parts of the Icy Island. We are first to believe that our main character is the ambitious and willing youngster: Gedney. As the first few chapters focus on his venture to comingaboard and sailing the seas with the rest of his crew to the island. As we ALSO get a Narration of what the Crew is experiencing. And the Crew docks and journeys through the Coast of Antarctica without problems It even starts talking about Geological readings and how and where the more CENTRAL portions of the Continent are mostlikely located given their science and readings but as a storm starts brewingup and Gedneys ambition gets the better of him After a few days of studying and even getting a small party lead by the Scientist: Professor Lake to venture with him from the MainGroup the story starts to turn GRIZZLY.... The story decides to center on the Captain of the expedition himself: William Dyer. As he grows naturally more worried about his SideTeams lack of response to how experimentation with Gedneys theories are going that he decides to take his group and go fly mobileplanes to where Gedney said he wanted his team to explore. From here is where it All REALLY starts... Gous artwork and style for recreating Lovecrafts suspense and horror in his novels are a MARVEL to experience in this manga. From beginning to end everything is detailed in grounded realism of how on would PROBABLY interpret Early 1900s England. Even drawingout how our Main Character had wanted to journey because of his interest in looking at the findings all whose OTHER teams from years past that had gotten as far as they THEMSELVES did And it only takes about a chapterortwo after the beginning to reach the continent ITSELF Although it isnt WITHOUT FAULT. Just like other famous Lovecraft books as there are creatures that appear and are described to have live longer than the Human Race along with their community and architecture. Sometimes as Lovecrafts writing more so of his characters describing the HORRORS of the PastCreatures bizarreness from humans understanding and/or likeness. As the characters explain about seeing objects or drawings that there is NO WAY TO MAKE HUMANLY SENSE OF Unlike in a NOVEL where having illustrations is optional in Comics/Manga illustrations are the KEYTRAIT. And in this book once the Main characters explore the mountains cave not only do they see Understandably bizarre carvings and such but some of the showings of the creatures history is SO complex and massive that it actually starts to CLUTTER the space shown on page But I guess one could say: Its more dependent on the TIMES it was written VS when the story was read. Lovecraft was an Author in the early 1900s when NOVELS were the BIGGEST form of ENTERTAINMENT. And no one had the technology Or maybe even inspiration to showoff anything more inhumanly interesting as the terrifying imaginary creatures that Lovecraft created FASTFORWARD TO 2020s AND NOW WE NOT ONLY HAVE BOTH TELEVISION AND THEATERS TO SEVERELY ENHANCE MASS AUDIENCES INTO PHYSICALLYVIEWABLE WORLDS WITH DIRECTLY THREATENING CREATURES TO ONES OWN FACE Also lets not forget about the biggest format of anyandall information in the world THE INTERNET. Thus if audiences are too USED to being shown/given a certain type of creature or being to be exposed to for too long ESPECIALLY if the person exposing us to said creature just wants to keep shoving it on us for an attempted QuickBuck... I think Dominic Noble: The Dom Lost in Adaptation series Ep. Dagon: 2:46 probably said it best: I think maybe its a combination of my generation being jaded by movies trying to scare us and overexposure to it. https://www..com/watch?v=87SKDyw4Ba0t=166s 220https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/syzgoj/images/stencil/500x659/products/2010220/4860693/apiawrsjw74291.1625668782.jpg?c=2 220https://imagesna.sslimagesamazon.com/images/I/91uq9G7GN5L.SL1500.jpg 220https://flxt.tms.com/assets/p30137pv8ac.jpg Also though it MAY still be instyle the story begins with the first disaster already having HAPPEN but then transitions to START the story with the Mystery Beginning Sometime Earlier.... Plus how when Main Characters: Dyer and Danforth are exploring the cave as Danforth realizes the danger of what may THREATEN THEIR LIVES moving forward ALREADY having found their missing members it is Dyer who seems mysteriously possessed to travel onwards until its too late not find the danger Side note: Once the traveler find the remains of their missing member: Gedney reasonably they notice that there is a SECOND sled to try and escape the horrors from and its never found out who rode it This was a VERY good suspense book to read and discover the weird and horror/macabre worlds of H.P. Lovecraft. And Darkhorse did a GREAT job at giving it a Special Edition thickcover WITH connected Bookmark Tassel. As this is the ONLY H.P. Lovecraft book Ive read MYSELF Id advise anyone of discovering his works ESPECIALLY in Mangaform... But Id still also advise keeping note of what I said earlier about the Horror Game having evolved SO MUCH from his time that you MAY find it a little LESS scary than when it was originally published. Or maybe since its illustrated in this Medium via. Black and White it could entice more....