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Cora­line, writ­ten by Neil Gaiman and illus­trated by Dave McK­ean, tells the story of a young girl who bravely saves her­self and her par­ents from the ghosts that inhabit their home.
Cora­line Jones and her par­ents stay in a divided up flat. The flat below them is occu­pied by Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, for­mer the­atre actresses who […]

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The Dream­ing is a graphic novel writ­ten and illus­trated by Quee­nie Chan, pub­lished by Toky­opop. It is a self-contained story and com­pleted in 3 vol­umes.
As other read­ers have noted, this manga is not typ­i­cal. First of all it is set in Aus­tralia and sec­ondly, it is writ­ten by a Chinese-Australian author. The Dream­ing can be best described […]

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Uzu­maki by Junji Ito, 2nd edi­tion pub­lished Octo­ber 2007 by Viz Media, 208 pages. Ito is the mas­ter of manga hor­ror. Oh, yes, I’m very famil­iar with his work hav­ing read Museum of Ter­ror about a young woman men are mes­mer­ized by and who end up killing her only to have her come back to life […]

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The Devil’s Rose: An Illus­trated Novel by Brom was my pick for my Hal­loween read. I wanted some­thing dark and dis­turb­ing and I almost got it. The graphic novel is about for­mer Texas Ranger slash soul­hunter, Cole McGee, track­ing down a group of souls that have escaped from Hell. Cole and his Hell Beast track the group of fugi­tive souls to a biker camp where they have […]

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Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz (2003) is the first book in the Odd Series.  Koontz is a writer whose work is often hard to clas­sify some­times. Some of the work he writes are straight up hor­ror sto­ries and some are not. 
Odd Thomas is a story in between where you have a blend of para­nor­mal aspects mixed with suspense. The story is nar­rated by the lead character […]

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My very first hor­ror comic. I had no idea what I would be get­ting into when I cracked open the spine. Talk about a story that is a very dark with a twisted tale of vio­lence and obses­sion. Museum of Ter­ror is a com­pi­la­tion of US trans­lated comic sto­ries fea­tur­ing the beau­ti­ful and eter­nally youth­ful “Tomie.”
Museum of Ter­ror tells the story of Tomie and the men who […]

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