Smarra #[nn]

Patrick Mallet's adaptation of Charles Nodier's gothic novella arrives in this haunting Glénat volume, and the cover immediately pulls you into its dreamlike dread. A wild-haired, green-eyed sorceress looms over a sleeping young man, her tendrils coiling around him while skeletal, grinning figures lurk among gnarled trees in the shadowy background. Mallet's detailed linework captures the surreal nightmare atmosphere of Nodier's early Romantic source material with genuine artistry and conviction.