Solis
8 best books like Solis (A.A. Attanasio): Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1, The Book of Atrix Wolfe, Breed to Come, The Crow, Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2., Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3, The Sandman: Overture, Insel
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1569317143 |
Can a comic--a horror manga, in this case--creep you out or even scare you? You know movies can do it, such as Psycho or Halloween. Stephen King can do it. I like some of Joe Hill's work such as Locke and Key, and that works to unsettle me, but this is different, atmospheric, black and white. . . and creepy,...
| Author | Patricia A. McKillip |
| ISBN | 0441003613 |
Twenty years ago, the powerful mage Atrix Wolfe unleashed an uncontrollable force that killed his beloved king. Now, the Queen of the Wood has offered him one last chance for redemption. She asks him to find her daughter, who vanished into the human world during the massacre he caused. No one has seen...
| Author | Andre Norton |
| ISBN | 0441078958 |
When desperate measures failed to control what men had begun and could not stop, they fled their polluted planet, leaving behind an epidemic virus born of experimentation. Yet unlike men, whom the disease could destroy, the animals of the planet thrived. Each generation was more forceful and intelligent...
I read a review within the very walls of this site that stated that this novel deserved no more that 2 stars. The reasoning, it seems, is that all of the characters, other than "the crow", are card board and underdeveloped.
I respect people's opinion. And, if I were to judge this book against the...
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2.
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1591160332 |
A sleepy town on the coast of Japan is under quiet, deadly siege, not by a person or group but by a primeval spiral shape whose victims include both parents of Shuichi Saito. In this second volume of the saga, Shuichi's girlfriend Kirie becomes further involved in the town's terrible secret when schoolmates...
Uzumaki: Spiral Into Horror, Vol. 3
| Author | Junji Ito |
| ISBN | 1591160480 |
Kurozu-cho, a fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is haunted by a recurring pattern: a spiral manifesting itself in increasingly terrifying ways. In this third and final volume, the town is cut off from the outside by devastating hurricanes. Kirie, her boyfriend Shuichi, and the other desperate survivors...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1401248969 |
Twenty-five years since
The Sandman
first changed the landscape of modern comics, Neil Gaiman’s legendary series is back in a deluxe hardcover edition!
The Sandman: Overture heralds New York Times best-selling writer Neil Gaiman’s return to the art form that made him famous, ably...
| Author | Mina Loy |
| ISBN | 0876858531 |
“He has an evening suit, but never an occasion to wear it, so he puts it on when he paints his pictures.”
Insel, the only novel by the surrealist master Mina Loy, is a book like no other—about an impossible friendship amid the glamorous artistic bohemia of 1930s Paris.
German painter...
