These protagonists are profoundly overmatched by the challenge they face, naïve about their prospects. By the story’s end, multiple cities... View Article
Much of the best horror derives from the inability to suppress traumas of the past, no matter how much characters... View Article
The defining feature of Junji Ito’s horror is obsession and mania. Here, he plays the theme as the knife point... View Article
Huge, expressive, imagistic, high-impact art here, heavily reminiscent of Bill Sienkiewicz). The high concept is good, too: A secret government... View Article
A collection of five novella-length horror comics whose complexity, darkness, and gut-punch impact are belied by creator Abby Howard’s relatively... View Article
Is the narrator being possessed by a demon, or is she losing her mind and the demon is simply a... View Article
True crime focused on serial killings in rural 1890s France. It follows the template of pairing the crimes with scientific/historical... View Article
A solid supernatural thriller set in late 1800s New York, following the titular character and her possibly devilish family. While... View Article
Lane’s exploration of American icons—hoboes, femmes fatale, motorcycles, cars—and his affection for the Beat Generation didn’t work for me as... View Article
This volume can’t quite hit the peerless highs of the first—largely due to a more overtly political focus of the... View Article