Goth fun
Top 10 Goth fun
: The Crow, Preludes & Nocturnes, Hack/Slash: My First Maniac, I Feel Sick #1, Drawing Blood, Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway, Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories, Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things, GloomCookie, Lenore - Purple Nurples
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...
| Author | Neil Gaiman |
| ISBN | 1563892278 |
New York Times best-selling author Neil Gaiman's transcendent series SANDMAN is often hailed as the definitive Vertigo title and one of the finest achievements in graphic storytelling. Gaiman created an unforgettable tale of the forces that exist beyond life and death by weaving ancient mythology,...
| Author | Tim Seeley |
| ISBN | 1607063387 |
Exploring Cassie Hack's first case, Hack/Slash: My First Maniac, the sellout Image Comics debut mini-series is collected! 16-year-old Cassie has just been forced to kill her mother, the undead murderer known as the Lunch Lady! Now faced with overwhelming guilt, she must decide if she can make a life...
This is my first glimpse at Vasquez who then turned out to be one of my fav comic book artists. AND I Feel Sick is still quite possibly my favourite comic.
YOU gotta read it, just because:
This book is a whole lot of cute crammed into a tiny space.
Beautifully drawn,...
| Author | Poppy Z. Brite |
| ISBN | 0440214920 |
A good old haunted house story is something I've always loved, so when the narrator of this tale offered me a chance to listen to the audio in exchange for a review, I jumped at it. Poppy Z. Brite is an author I've heard a lot about and I've been wanting to read his work for quite some time. I learned a few things...
Lucifer, Vol. 1: Devil in the Gateway
| Author | Mike Carey |
| ISBN | 1563897334 |
From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Lucifer Morningstar, the former Lord of Hell, is unexpectedly called back into action when he receives a mission from Heaven. Given free reign to use any means necessary, Lucifer is promised a prize of his own choosing if he fulfills this holy request. But once he completes...
Wormwood: A Collection of Short Stories
| Author | Poppy Z. Brite |
| ISBN | 0440217989 |
"Big talent gives off thermonuclear vibes. I can feel them . . . this is the voice we're going to be hearing for a long time."--Harlan Ellison
In an old car rocking down a North Carolina highway with the radio on so loud you can't hear the music. . . Behind a dusty Georgia carny show. . . In a mausoleum...
Courtney Crumrin and the Night Things
| Author | Ted Naifeh |
| ISBN | 1929998600 |
This is a graphic novel series aimed at about a 12-year-old's level. Courtney Crumrin is a fairly stock character: the rude, precociously misanthropic little girl who's brought to a new town by her callow, grasping, negligent parents, where they stay for free in a rich great-uncle's mansion while...
| Author | Serena Valentino |
| ISBN | 2915168369 |
GloomCookie s'attache à suivre les pas d'un groupe de personnages aux destins liés... de façon tout à fait originale. Il y a Lex, laquelle est amoureuse de Max. Max n'éprouve rien pour elle (quoique...) et aime la faire marcher. Il y a Isabella, la " Reine " de la communauté goth, qui aime exercer...
| Author | Roman Dirge |
| ISBN | 1848563914 |
I was introduced to Lenore last year, thanks to the fine folks at Titan Books. My review is long gone, as my blog crashed a couple of months afterwards, however my love of all things Lenore remains. So imagine how excited I was to get PURPLE NURPLES in the mail a couple of days ago! I’m proud to announce that...
| Author | Edward Gorey |
| ISBN | 0747541604 |
The Gashlycrumb Tinies: or, After the Outing is an abecedarian book written by Edward Gorey that was first published in 1963. Gorey tells the tale of 26 children (each representing a letter of the alphabet) and their untimely deaths in rhyming dactylic couplets, accompanied by the author's distinctive...
| Author | Roman Dirge |
| ISBN | 1593620241 |
What I learned from this book: Little dead girls can be very witty, and vampires trapped in stuffed animals are quite attractive when they are finally released from their furry little bodies. ha!
really though-- i liked the one volume i read-- which was # 11. Al, from Al's Comics in SF recommended...
| Author | Roman Dirge |
| ISBN | 0943151090 |
Odd, creepy illustrations for poems for children. Dirge, who also wrote Lenore: The Cute Little Dead Girl (which I still haven’t yet read) says “This is a collection of children's tales for disturbed children.” Ha! Nice.
This guy is working in the same macabre territory and seems to...
The Complete Stories and Poems
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0385074077 |
I’ve been reading this book for almost three years and it feels so good to finally have finished it!
I was surprised by what I found in here. Poe was slightly different to what I thought. He is very much shrouded in shadow and the macabre, at least, his more successful stories and poems were. But...
| Author | Edgar Allan Poe |
| ISBN | 0486290727 |
In Gustave Doré, one of the most prolific and successful book illustrators of the late 19h century, Edgar Allan Poe's renowned poem The Raven found perhaps its most perfect artistic interpreter. Doré's dreamlike, otherworldly style, tinged with melancholy, seems ideally matched to the bleak...
The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft
The weird fiction short stories of H.P. Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.
The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.
The Tomb (1917)
Dagon (1917)
Polaris (1918)
Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)
Memory...
| Author | Derek Landy |
| ISBN | 0061231150 |
"So you won't keep anything from me again?"
He put his hand to his chest. "Cross my heart and hope to die."
"Okay then. Though you don't actually have a heart," she said.
"I know."
"And technically, you've already died."
"I know that too."
"Just so we're clear."
When...
| Author | CLAMP |
| ISBN | 0345471199 |
WATCH OUT FOR WITCHES
Kimihiro Watanuki thought he had signed up with a bunch of weirdoes, and he was right! He became the unfortunate indentured servant of a woman known as Yûko Ichihara, who was widely rumored to be the time-space witch. Now his voyage through the worlds of the occult are off...
Runaways, Vol. 1: Pride and Joy
| Author | Brian K. Vaughan |
| ISBN | 0785113797 |
I read Pride and Joy as part of a larger volume years ago, but what with my daughter wanting me to watch the tv show with her, I thought it was probably time to dust off the cobwebs and do a re-read.
And, hey! This was still a cool story.
The basic premise is that these kids discover their...
Alluding to both the Sherlock Holmes canon and the Old Ones of the Cthulhu Mythos, this Hugo Award-winning short story will delight fans of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, H. P. Lovecraft, and of course, Neil Gaiman.
A Study in Emerald draws listeners in through carefully revealed details as a consulting...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0552154288 |
Susan had never hung up a stocking . She'd never put a tooth under her pillow in the serious expectation that a dentally inclined fairy would turn up. It wasn't that her parents didn't believe in such things. They didn't need to believe in them. They know they existed. They just wished they didn't.
There...
| Author | Terry Pratchett |
| ISBN | 0060012382 |
"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back."
"Why?" said Tiffany.
"There's no one to stop them."
There was silence for a moment.
Then Tiffany said, "There's me."
Armed only with a frying pan and her common...
The Crow: The Lazarus Heart
| Author | Poppy Z. Brite |
| ISBN | 0061020095 |
The Eternal One At our human limits, when we've gone asfor as flesh and imagination can take us, wemeet the Eternal One. The Crow. Immemorially old, and inconsolable, he is there only for those who seek both revengeand love, and are willing to go alI theway--and beyond. The Lazarus Heart Five, four, three,...
The EC Archives: Tales from the Crypt Volume 1
| Author | Al Feldstein |
| ISBN | 1888472553 |
EC Comics (Entertaining Comics) were all published from the late 1940s until around 1956, when the Comics Code Authority whitewashed all comic books to remove all themes of horror and violence. Psychiatrist Fredric Wertham and Senator Estes Kefauver's Committee on Juvenile Delinquency attacked...
