Dark Horse Manga announced that it has licensed Gou Tanabe’s manga adaptation of H.P Lovecraft’s The Shadow Out of Time for English release. The manga will be released in a 370-page tankobon-sized paperback format in bookstores on December 16, 2025 and comic shops on December 17, 2025.
Zack Davisson is translating the manga, as he has done for several of Tanabe’s Lovecraft manga adaptations previously, while Steve Dutro is serving as letterer.
The Shadow Out of Time manga adaptation was serialized in Enterbrain’s Comic Beam magazine from April 12, 2018 to December 12, 2018. Two total tankobon volumes were released in Japan.
Dark Horse Manga describes the main synopsis of The Shadow Out of Time as:
Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee was once a respectable professor of political economy. Though he taught at Miskatonic University in Arkham, his temper was of a reasonable sort, not at all interested in the occult. That has changed. In 1908, standing in the lecture hall, Professor Peaslee saw his classroom suddenly twist into an uncanny, alien vista, and he collapsed unconscious.
What awoke was not the Nathaniel Peaslee his colleagues knew — at least, not his mind. Now associating with strange people, and speaking oddly of time, distant lands, and concepts of existence, his travels and research disturbed those who knew him, including his friends, wife and even children. It was not until 1913 that Professor Peaslee came back to his right mind, with no memory of his strange sabbatical. His search for understanding of those five missing years leads him — and readers — on a journey across the globe to a place where a long-vanished race still casts their shadow out of time.
Tanabe has adapted several works of Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos series into manga, some of which have been released in English by Dark Horse. They include H.P. Lovecraft’s The Hound and Other Stories, At The Mountains Of Madness, The Shadow Over Innsmouth, and The Call of Cthulhu.
He also worked on manga adaptations of The Haunter of the Dark, The Outsider, and The Dunwich Horror.
Source: press release
