This solid adaptation is a great take on the impossible: visualizing Lovecraft's description of what is incomprehensible to man. Tanabe’s realistic style effectively illustrates the story in volume 1 (despite fairly plain character design) and goes on to a unique artistic vision for the more fantastical volume 2.
However, the manga suffers from its source material. Lovecraft was a master at description, tension and world building- but was prone to bland characters, stilted dialogue and long exposition dumps. Here, dialogue often reads as if it's irrelevant which character is speaking. Still, lines from the original work are selected effectively to efficiently move the plot forward.
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