Beautiful Darkness #[nn]

A tiny blonde girl in a blue polka-dot dress stands amid a lush tangle of oversized clover leaves, dwarfed by an enormous gray hand looming beside her — it's an image that perfectly captures the unsettling tension the title Beautiful Darkness promises. Fabien Vehlmann and Kerascoët's 2014 graphic novel from Drawn & Quarterly wraps genuine menace in watercolor-soft, storybook beauty, and Kerascoët's cover art makes that contradiction feel both enchanting and quietly unnerving. If you're drawn to work that wears a fairy-tale aesthetic while hinting at something far stranger underneath, this one belongs on your shelf.