True crime is the most graphic of horror – yet graphic novels are one of the most balanced ways to tell these stories. Perhaps it is the constraints to the page, or the smaller amount of text for lurid details, and in the few book I talk about today the limited palette of colours; often black and white.
While these are stories we know well – Dahmer, Gein, Ridgway – I found these books told it in a new and arresting way. I am on the look out for more. With the most recent addition to my small collection, Torso, I get to go back in time to the most wicked cold case of all, The Mad Butcher of Kingsbury Run. I got my copy here: https://amzn.to/46jRmTD or find it on BookShop https://bookshop.org/a/12297/9781506730257.
I’ll have a review or discussion soon enough but this comes highly recommended! Have you read this or do you know of a true crime graphic novel I should pick up?
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I talk horror books; extreme horror, classic, slasher, gothic, and everything in between. Helping you find the next best horror book to read is the goal, and sharing new and old horror from my shelves and new releases is how! Horror, nonfiction and even true crime can be found here as I find that human beings are the scariest thing of all.
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