Shonen Jump Ventures Deep Into Cthulhu Mythos with Forgotten Monsters
Warning! Spoilers ahead for Ghost Reaper Girl chapter 35!
The Shonen Jump manga series Ghost Reaper Girl is venturing deep into H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos by introducing monsters that Lovecraft himself didn't invent but borrowed.
Mangaka Akissa Saiké proved early on that he was greatly inspired by the Cthulhu Mythos when creating Ghost Reaper Girl. Although many of his characters are only loosely based on Lovecraftian monsters, save for Cthulhu himself, the majority of the inspirations are quite well known or serve as major entities in the mythology, like Yog Sothoth. Moreover, they all came from the mind of Lovecraft himself. Although many authors and creators have contributed to his mythos — their contributions usually referred to as Lovecraftian — it would be expected that anyone wishing to borrow from Lovecraft's wealth of monsters and supernatural horrors would only explore his own creations.
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Saiké does just the opposite when introducing a Hound of Tindalos in chapter 35 of Ghost Reaper Girl. The towering canine-esque monster is referred to as the familiar of Night-gaunt, a ghost reaper who recently took part in an all-out brawl of Lovecraft monsters and is loosely based on the creatures of the same name in Cthulhu. It's intriguing that Saiké chose to incorporate the Hounds of Tindalos as they are the creation of the author Frank Belknap Long and were only briefly mentioned by Lovecraft himself in his short story The Whisperer in Darkness.
Unlike its master Night-gaunt in Ghost Reaper Girl who doesn't look anything like his namesake, the manga's rendition of the Hound of Tindalos is most likely how Long and Lovecraft envisioned him, though, no
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