H.P. Lovecraft's The Call of Cthulhu

The narrator, Francis Wayland Thurston, recounts his discovery of notes left behind by his grand-uncle, Brown University linguistic professor George Gammell Angell after his death in the winter of 1926–27. Among the notes is a small bas-relief sculpture of a scaly creature which yields "simultaneous pictures of an octopus, a dragon, and a human caricature." The sculptor, a Rhode Island art student named Henry Anthony Wilcox, based the work on delirious dreams of "great Cyclopean cities of titan blocks and sky-flung monoliths." Frequent references to Cthulhu and R'lyeh are found in Wilcox's papers. Angell also discovers reports of mass hysteria around the world.

Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn - "In his house at R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming." This Monthly Horror Magazine fan favorite is based on the cosmic horror Cthulhu Mythos by H.P. Lovecraft. Main stories like The Call of Cthulhu and The Dunwich Horror are comicalized by Satoshi Ogawa, the genius representing Japanese science fiction to the world!

(Source: Manga Planet)