Dark Horse Unveils Tanabe's The Outsider Collection at NYCC 2026

Dark Horse announced at its New York Comic Con 2026 panel that it will release Gou Tanabe's The Outsider and Other Early Adaptations collection, according to Anime News Network. The announcement came on October 8, 2026.

The collection features Tanabe's manga adaptation of H.P. Lovecraft's The Outsider, translated by Zack Davisson. It also includes Tanabe's early adaptations of works by Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky.

Dark Horse also announced a new Blue Eye Samurai western-style comic series titled Blue Eye Samurai: Cry of the Yurei, along with a new graphic novel titled Martial War by Hiroyuki Takei, Will Carter, and Aidan White.

Tanabe's Lovecraft catalog at Dark Horse

Dark Horse has published several of Tanabe's Lovecraft adaptations. It released The Hound and Other Stories in August 2017 and began releasing At the Mountains of Madness in June 2019; that work was nominated for Best Comic by the 46th Angoulême International Comics Festival in 2019. Tanabe's The Call of Cthulhu won the Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel award at the Bram Stoker Awards in June 2025.

More recently, Dark Horse released The Colour Out of Space in July 2025 and The Shadow Out of Time in December 2025, and most recently released The Dunwich Horror manga on September 29, 2026. In August 2026, Dark Horse announced it will release Tanabe's adaptation of The Case of Charles Dexter Ward in spring 2027.