Carmilla #[nn]

Pascal Croci's adaptation of Sheridan Le Fanu's gothic vampire tale arrives with a cover of striking, dreamlike elegance — a pale, dark-haired young woman in flowing white lace reclines with eyes closed, rosary beads slipping through her fingers, her deep-red lips the only vivid note against an almost monochromatic wash. Croci's delicate, painterly linework gives Carmilla herself an ethereal, melancholy beauty that feels both vulnerable and quietly unsettling. For readers drawn to atmospheric European comics with a literary pedigree, this 2016 Emmanuel Proust edition promises something genuinely haunting.