Gothic Classics at Comics Worth Reading

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"These stories are considered foundational to the genre of the romantic mystery with their strange family secrets and touches of dusty horror. They’re talked about but rarely seen these days, so it’s a pleasure to get to read these classics in illustrated form. They all have in common young women with at least one missing parent who ponder the supernatural events they experience by candlelight in gloomy castles...

...Edgar Allan Poe’s The Oval Portrait is a short four pages, with art by Leong Wan Kok. Like the much longer Northanger Abbey that follows it, it explicitly makes reference to the Udolpho author in establishing its spooky atmosphere. At its length, it’s merely an incident, but it’s the most explicitly creepiest in the book..."

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