Horror Movie Freak, by Don Sumner
August 17, 2011 10:01 amA guide to horror that confused me a bit. It approaches things as a beginner’s guide, but also has a... View Article
Category: 52 Books/52 Weeks
I Am Legion, by Fabien Nury and John Cassaday
August 10, 2011 10:00 amA complicated comic, with its combination of sibling rivalry between Dracula and his brother and World War 2-era intrigue, but... View Article
The Unwritten, vol. 3: Dead Man’s Knock
August 3, 2011 10:28 amby Mike Carey and Peter Gross This series about the power of stories comes to an interesting crescendo point in... View Article
The Grave Tattoo, by Val McDermid
July 27, 2011 10:25 amI enjoyed the BBC series Wire in the Blood, based on McDermid’s Tony Hill novels. This book, following an investigation... View Article
Lychee Light Club, by Usamaru Furuya
July 20, 2011 10:30 amA disturbing manga about a group of teenage boys whose underdeveloped maturity and sexuality, and overdeveloped sense of curiosity, leads... View Article
+Horror Library+ Volume 1
July 13, 2011 10:17 amThis anthology offers more good stories than most first volumes of anthology series. Highlights include Eric Stark’s Little Black Box... View Article
20th Century Boys, vols. 10-13, by Naoki Urasawa
July 6, 2011 10:15 amIt takes to the last page of vol. 12—2,500 pages into the story—for the face of the villain to be... View Article
The Ghost Map, by Steven Johnson
June 29, 2011 10:01 amNot quite the gripping page-turner it’s touted as, this chronicle of a cholera outbreak in 1850s London is still fascinating.... View Article
Bat-Manga, compiled by Chip Kidd, Geoff Spear, Saul Ferris
June 22, 2011 10:08 amAn intriguingly odd collection of original Batman comics from 1960s Japan, when the campy show aired there. Some odd decisions,... View Article
Dark Delicacies, edited by Jeff Gelb and Del Howison
June 15, 2011 10:08 amAn anthology by major genre names, co-originated by the owner of the world’s only horror-only bookstore, LA’s Dark Delicacies. A... View Article