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Horror Graphic Novels

Harrow County, Volume 1: Countless Haints story by Cullen Bunn; art by Tyler Crook

Emmy always knew that the woods surrounding her home crawled with ghosts and monsters. But on the eve of her 18th birthday, she learns that she is connected to these creatures — and to the land itself — in a way she never imagined.

 

House of Penance story by Peter J. Tomasi; art by Ian Bertram

A horrifying story, featuring the haunting lore surrounding the real-life Winchester mystery house. This tale centers on the fevered desperation of Sarah Winchester to reconcile her all-consuming grief at the passing of her family with the guilt that riddles her due to the violent overtures of the family business.

 

Through The Woods by Emily Carroll

Take a stroll into the morbid and evocative world of “Through the Woods” with five intriguing, yet nightmarish tales. This visually captivating and hauntingly beautiful book,  takes the reader into a disturbing world of disappearing loved ones, spectral songstresses, and harrowing visitations from the “other side”.

 

A Beautiful Darkness story by Marie Pommepuy and Fabien Vehlmann; art by Kerascoët

Kerascoët's and Fabien Vehlmann's unsettling and gorgeous anti-fairy tale is a searing condemnation of our vast capacity for evil writ tiny. The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët's delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed and jealousy take over. "Beautiful Darkness" is a harrowing look behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society.

 

Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft story by Joe Hill; art by Gabriel Rodriguez

Presents the story of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them — and home to a hate-filled creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all.

 

Baltimore, Volume 1: The Plague Ships story by Mike Mignola & Christopher Golden; art by Ben Stenbeck

After a devastating plague ends World War I, Europe is suddenly flooded with vampires. Lord Henry Baltimore, a soldier determined to wipe out the monsters, fights his way through bloody battlefields, ruined plague ships, exploding zeppelins, and submarine graveyards, on the hunt for the creature who has become his obsession.

 

Nailbiter, Volume 1: There Will Be Blood story by Joshua Williamson; art by Mike Henderson

Where do serial killers come from and why has Buckaroo, Oregon given birth to 16 of the most vile serial killers in the world? NSA Agent Nicholas Finch needs to solve that mystery in order to save his friend, and he'll have to team up with the infamous Edward "Nailbiter" Warren to do it. Joshua Williamson and Mike Henderson deliver a mystery that mixes Twin Peaks with the horror of Se7en!     

                                                                                                                                                                                                        

Ghosted Voume 1: Haunted Heist story by Joshua Williamson; art by Goran Sudzuka

Winters is one of the greatest criminal masterminds to ever live...except he's rotting in jail after his last, doomed score. But when a filthy rich collector breaks him out, he's tasked with putting together an elite team of paranormal experts to do the impossible: Steal a ghost from a haunted house of horrors!

 

Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror by Junji Ito

Kurozu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted not by a person or being, but by a pattern: uzumaki, the spiral, the hypnotic secret shape of the world. As the madness spreads, the inhabitants of Kurôzu-cho are pulled ever deeper into a whirlpool from which there is no return!

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