Gothic Tales of Haunted Love

author: Hope Nicholson
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.00
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2019/02/05
date added: 2019/02/05
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
'Gothic Tales of Haunted Love' edited by Hope Nicholson and S.M. Beiko is a collection of short stories by a variety of contributors that pay homage to the creepy gothic comics of the 1970s.

I'm not much of a romance reader, but I do like a good haunted love story. This collection of 19 stories and a fun quiz. There is a cover gallery at the end and the collection even includes a reprint of an original story called 'The Promise' by Korean artist Sanho Kim, about a soldier who is saved by two sisters with a promise to marry one of them, and the consequences of breaking that promise.

The stories vary in quality. I liked some more than others. There is a range of diversity here. The problem with including a classic story, is that it just seems to shine above most of the collection. My favorites were the reprint, 'Crush' by Janet Hetherington, Ron Sutton, Becka Kinzie & Zakk Sam, and 'Minefield' by Hien Pham, which is told almost entirely in Vietnamese.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from Bedside Press, Diamond Book Distributors, and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.


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