Les Fantômes du Vieux Bourg #[nn]

A darkly atmospheric French album, Les Fantômes du Vieux Bourg sets the mood immediately with its cover: a scratchy, chalk-white rendering of a quiet old town street dissolving into shadow, with the faint silhouettes of figures haunting the thoroughfare beneath a deep black sky. The stark monochrome palette — broken only by blood-red lettering — gives the whole thing an eerie, almost hand-etched quality that feels perfectly suited to a ghost story rooted in old cobblestones and forgotten corners. From Efix and Levaray, published by Éditions Petit à Petit in 2008, this is an intriguing slice of Franco-Belgian comics with genuine atmosphere to spare.