![]() ![]() Nature takes its cruel course, picking off the characters one by one as they start to squabble and kill each other.Ī baffling and disturbing wordless story. They forage for food, build new shelters, and interact with the woodland creatures, sometimes trying to befriend them, sometimes killing and eating them. Trying to set up a new community to survive in the woods is challenging. They climb out of the skull to find lots of tiny companions, wandering about. ![]() Ah – turns out they are living inside the body of a dead girl in a forest. Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoet (2014)Ĭute characters, taking tea, are suddenly surrounded by dripping gore. Works of domestic fiction, of small-town, downbeat tales, are sometimes more heavily freighted with the gothic sensibility than the abounding horror and science fiction titles.ġ. There are many genres within graphic fiction, but works that evoke a sense of muted horror can be found across these arbitrary divisions. ![]() Graphic novels, especially if discovered in adulthood by readers of a certain age, can seem, in themselves, uncanny – that odd mixture of the strange and familiar – the comics of childhood morphed into “serious” fiction, mixing the fantastic with the mundane and shifting between multiple layers of reality. ![]()
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