A review by ace_tc
H.P. Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth by Gou Tanabe

adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

Fish people. 

I should just leave that as my review. But I can’t, because that’s not a good journal entry then. 
I had to keep turning this book over when I was done reading it because the cover kept freaking me out. Ever since I was young I would turn over magazines and books with faces on them…I felt like the eyes were watching me. 
This was a dense read for a manga. This told a whole story instead of one of Lovecrafts shorts. The drawings were haunting, sometimes a bit too dark to really distinguish unless you had really good bed side lighting. 
I’m always down a creepy, isolated town where outsiders don’t venture into sort of story. And it also deals with deep sea horror?! It was a fun read for sure, though the part where you had to decipher what the village drunkard was saying was almost impossible to decipher. And I feel like that was such a critical part to the legend behind the rise and fall of the city. 
Looking forward to reading more of his work, might need something a little “lighter” to chew on.