Aspic - Détectives de l'étrange #8

The eighth volume of Thierry Gloris and Emmanuel Despujal's Aspic — Détectives de l'étrange brings a theatrical chill to the series, as the cover shows our two detectives — a glamorous blonde woman in a red corset and a dark-haired young man in a period suit — being menaced by creeping supernatural tentacles inside what appears to be an ornate, mirror-lined salon, with a ghostly crowd of onlookers reflected in the background. The subtitle Trois petits tours et puis s'en vont hints at a world of performance and disappearance, and the staging feels genuinely eerie, balancing elegance with dread. Published by Soleil in 2021, this is a handsomely crafted entry in a French supernatural-detective series with plenty of atmosphere to offer.