Others: Overwhelmingly positive A story of a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe and his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father's story and history itself.
Genres: horror, graphic novel
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Emil Ferris
2017 · 416 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Leaning positiveSet against the tumultuous political backdrop of late ’60s Chicago, My Favorite Thing Is Monsters is the fictional graphic diary of 10-year-old Karen Reyes, filled with B-movie horror and pulp monster magazines iconography. Karen Reyes tries to solve the murder of her enigmatic upstairs neighbor, Anka Silverberg, a holocaust survivor, while the interconnected stories of those around her unfold. When Karen’s investigation takes us back to Anka’s life in Nazi Germany, the reader discovers how the personal, the political, the past, and the present converge. Full-color illustrations throughout.
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Richard Matheson
1971 · 247 pages · 2 reviews
Others: Leaning negativeRolf Rudolph Deutsch is going die. But when Deutsch, a wealthy magazine and newpaper publisher, starts thinking seriously about his impending death, he offers to pay a physicist and two mediums, one physical and one mental, $100,000 each to establish the facts of life after death. Dr. Lionel Barrett, the physicist, accompanied by the mediums, travel to the Belasco House in Maine, which has been abandoned and sealed since 1949 after a decade of drug addiction, alcoholism, and debauchery. For one night, Barrett and his colleagues investigate the Belasco House and learn exactly why the townfolks refer to it as the Hell House
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Joe Hill
2009 · 72 pages · 8 reviews
Others: Overwhelmingly positiveWhat made the match, strongest first
Junji Itō
2020 · 259 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveAn unknown planet emerges from inside a wormhole, and its discoverer, Dr. Oguro, christens the body “Remina” after his own daughter. His finding is met with great fanfare, and Remina herself rises to fame. However, the object picks up speed as it moves along in its curious course, eliminating planets and stars one after another, until finally Earth itself faces extinction… Is the girl Remina the true cause of the catastrophe? A masterwork of horror from Junji Ito, unfolding on a universal scale.
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Joe Hill
2013 · 1 review
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Clive Barker
1989 · 688 pages · 1 review
Others: PositiveTo possess the greatest power of all, the Art, two man-spirits are preparing to fight using their mortal offspring. But an innocent passion between two of the children escalates the war to a new ferocity. Book One in a new three-volume series from master horror author Clive Barker.
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Loved itIt's a graphic novel that appears in all the list like you always see this book. It's definitely a really heavy topic with the Holocaust and it is a very interesting perspective... It was just a very powerful read and it really taught me a lot.
Loved itthis is the kind of book that you should not miss out on
Loved itI just remember absolutely loving this to the point where it made me cry and it's a graphic novel so that doesn't happen that often but it was just beautiful and wonderful and I really highly recommend this
