Graphic Classics #16

This volume in the long-running Graphic Classics series turns its attention to the wit and darkness of Oscar Wilde, adapting Salome, The Canterville Ghost, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and more. Lisa K. Weber's cover sets the mood perfectly: a gaunt, hollow-eyed specter clutching a candle confronts a sharply dressed blond young man who raises a gleaming knife in alarm — a scene that captures the delicious dread running through Wilde's supernatural tales. With contributions from Molly Kiely, Rich Tommaso, Nick Miller, and Weber herself, this 2009 anthology is a stylish invitation to experience Wilde's storytelling through the vivid language of comics.