Graphic Classics #14

A pale, wide-eyed vampire woman rises from a blood-red coffin on Lisa K. Weber's wonderfully eerie cover for this fourteenth volume in the Graphic Classics series. The anthology promises five tales drawn from gothic literary giants — Ann Radcliffe, Jane Austen, Poe, M.J. Closser, and Le Fanu — spanning ghosts, vampires, haunted castles, and forbidden love. Among the adaptations is Myla Jo Closser's "I've a Pain in My Head," brought to life by writer Tom Pomplun and artist Shary Flenniken, making this 2007 collection a genuinely satisfying blend of literary heritage and inventive comics craft.