Status
Available
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Publication
IDW Publishing (2017), Edition: Illustrated, 172 pages
Description
A twisted figure crawling out of a tunnel. A giggling crowd of masked watchers. A reassembling corpse. What could be behind you, just waiting for you to turn around? Behind You is an illustration series, a comic with no panels, where each piece is essentially a separate story. Each tale is one image and one piece of text; an unsuspecting victim with someone, or something, behind them. Entries range from the amusingly weird to the genuinely unsettling. Inspired by spooky films, books, myths, and internet tall tales, Behind You is full of scary set-ups but leaves lots of blanks for the reader to fill in with their own narrative.Includes an Introduction by New York Times Best-Seller Joe Hill.
User reviews
LibraryThing member Stahl-Ricco
A pretty cool idea for a book - one panel illustrations accompanied by a bit of text, all involving scary "things" being behind someone! The illustrations are pretty dang creepy, and enjoyable! Some seem similar to Escher in style, the last one reminding me of Bev Doolittle. It reads fast, and in
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fact, I read it twice - finding it much creepier the second time! Unsettling pages for me were - “finally, she found the key to the old nursery “, “this had been her room”, and as a mail carrier, I can totally relate to the “whateley place” entry! It seemed like a tame read at first, but the hairs did stand up on my neck by the end of the book! Show Less
LibraryThing member michaeladams1979
Wonderful collection of single-frame horror comics. On the original site theyêre published on they are actually animated gifs, but they work almost just as well without the little flickers of movement.
LibraryThing member ThomasPluck
not as frightful as the animated web images but beautiful and creepy!
LibraryThing member villemezbrown
Horror stories told in flash fiction style with one or two sentences and a single, very eerie image. Dwell on them, and you can build novels in your head, or read them too fast and feel like you're slamming through a YouTube video showing the cold open of every episode of Supernatural.
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You can see all these strips (and more) with animation right here: https://tapas.io/series/Behind-You/info
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genius spin on Little Red Riding Hood and a little tribute to Locke & Key by Joe Hill, who contributes the introduction.You can see all these strips (and more) with animation right here: https://tapas.io/series/Behind-You/info
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Language
Original language
English
Original publication date
2017-09
Physical description
172 p.; 9.06 inches
ISBN
1631409530 / 9781631409530