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'Her voice is unique and powerful and I, for one, am addicted to it.'
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
'Carroll's talent is immense.'
Observer, Graphic Novel of the Month
'Emily is the master, I die for her books'
KATE BEATON
'Carroll knows when to shock on the turn of a page and…
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1 author picked A Guest in the House as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This is a really atmospheric graphic novel–a form that can be brilliant at conveying creeping unease (see also Charles Burns). Dowdy Abbey lives with her newish dentist husband (she’s his second wife) and alienated daughter Crystal in his picturesque lakeside house. Living mostly inside her head, Abbey starts to believe there is a dark secret concerning her husband’s first wife, Sheila, who is dead. She starts to dream and then sees what appears to be the ghost of Sheila. Yet, is the increasingly alarming entity what it seems?
This graphic novel pulls off what the supernatural genre almost never manages…
From John's list on spooky old houses and the fear of madness.
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