Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.
Shelley's gothic birth of science fiction (1818).
A village gathers on a June morning for the annual draw; the New Yorker lost subscribers over what the draw is for.
An officer demonstrates the machine that writes a condemned man's sentence into his back over twelve hours.
Ichabod Crane rides home past the churchyard and meets the Headless Horseman; the first American ghost story.
Three wishes on a mummified paw, and the knocking at the door after the second one.
A boy with a chainsaw devil for a heart hunts devils for the government; Fujimoto's chaos.
Rick Grimes wakes in a hospital to the zombie apocalypse; 193 issues in black and white.
A town cursed by spirals; Junji Ito's horror masterpiece.
A woman shut in a nursery for a rest cure starts reading the wallpaper and finds a figure creeping behind the pattern.
A murderer insists on his own sanity while the old man's heartbeat gets louder under the floorboards.
A sexually transmitted plague mutates 1970s Seattle teenagers; Charles Burns in ink black.
A demon raised by the army fights Rasputin and frog monsters; Mignola's shadows.
A superflu kills 99% of humanity and the survivors gather in Boulder and Las Vegas; King's epic.
The Torrances winter at the Overlook Hotel; King's haunted house, different from Kubrick's.
A novelist held captive by his number-one fan; the hobbling scene.
A murderer with a perfect nose in 18th-century France distils the scent of girls.
Seven children in Derry, Maine against a clown that eats fear, twice, twenty-seven years apart.
A portrait ages while its subject sins; Wilde's only novel.
A respectable doctor and his other self, in sixty pages of fog.
Diaries, letters and ship's logs assemble the Count; Stoker invented the vampire we have.
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