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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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Continue ReadingThe 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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Continue ReadingUzumaki 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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Continue ReadingThe 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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Continue ReadingOdd 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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Continue ReadingMy 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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