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• After the Rain

  Jennings, John, 1970-

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  Based on a short story, this tale is one of terror embodying the Nigerian spirit world. When Chioma lets in a young boy with a horrific head wound, she lets in more than she bargained on - something dark and frightening and inexplicable. Bold…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Demon. Volume 1

  Shiga, Jason

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  Demon is an intelligent, dark, and somewhat deranged graphic novel. With that being said, it is profoundly entertaining. An Eisner Awards award winning story, Demon follows Jimmy Yee, a man who cannot die no matter how much he tries. As he learns…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Bad Bad Place

  Hine, David

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  A weird and dark haunted house story with a twist. What is at times great social commentary on the human condition. The Bad Bad Place is a story that revolves around the small community of Faraway Hills and a series of mysterious disappearances that…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Venus in the Blind Spot

  Itō, Junji, 1963-

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  Venus in the blindspot is a short story collection featuring 10 one-shot horror stories. Each story offers a unique kind of horror. Some are grotesque and gross, others are just weird and nasty. Junji Ito is the man who creates scenes and stories…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Invisible War

  a Tale on Two Scales

  Wild, Ailsa

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  An illustrated science-history graphic novel exploring parallel experiences during WWI. The story takes place on two different physical scales the macro-scale, from the point of view of a Victorian nurse supporting troops in the trenches of the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Cats of the Louvre

  Matsumoto, Taiyō, 1967-

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  A surreal tale of the secret world of the cats of the Louvre, told by Eisner Award winner Taiyo Matsumoto. The world-renowned Louvre museum in Paris contains more than just the most famous works of art in history. At night, within its darkened…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ody-C. Vol. 1, Off to Far Ithicaa

  Fraction, Matt

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  An eye-searing, mind-bending, gender-shattering epic science fiction retelling of Homer's Odyssey starting with the end of a great war in the stars and the beginning of a very long journey home for Odyssia and her crew of warriors.

• Here

  McGuire, Richard

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  Built in six pages of interlocking panels, dated by year, this title tells the story of the corner of a room and its inhabitants between the years 500, 957, 406, 073 BC and 2033 AD.

• Cyclopedia Exotica

  Dhaliwal, Aminder, 1988-

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  In Cyclopedia Exotica, doctor's office waiting rooms, commercials, dog parks, and dating app screenshots capture the experiences and interior lives of the cyclops community; a largely immigrant population displaying physical differences from the…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Black Hole

  Burns, Charles, 1955-

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  In suburban Seattle in the 1970s, hordes of teenagers are being grotesquely disfigured by "the Bug" — a disease spread by sexual contact, presenting different mutations for every affected person. Full of sex, drugs and teen angst, Burns's…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Satania

  Vehlmann, Fabien, 1972-

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  An underground rescue attempt takes a hapless cast of characters (and the reader) to much stranger places than expected. A dark and sometimes bleak story, blanketed in a swathe of illustrations that are creative, creepy, enthralling and undeniably…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Acting Class

  Drnaso, Nick

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  Creepy, unnerving, sinister, and definitely super weird, this latest graphic novel by the author of "Sabrina" will cause you to question everything. "Acting Class" follows a group of people who join a free acting class headed by charismatic and…Read moreRead more of this annotation