May ScaredyKIT: Graphic Novels and Short Works

May ScaredyKIT: Graphic Novels and Short Works

  

Lots of options to read in May, and as it's a busy time of year for me something short is always welcome. So, graphic novels and short fiction or nonfiction.

Some graphic novels and series:

Snow, Glass, Apples by Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran
The Raven's Child by Tom Sniegoski and Tom Brown
Sandman by Neil Gaiman
Monstress by Marjorie M. Liu and Sana Takeda
Locke & Key by Joe Hill

And a rather random selection of a few short stories anthologies and collections:

Never Whistle at Night, edited by Shane Hawk
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Night Shift by Stephen King

I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone reads!

Wiki: https://wiki.librarything.com/index.php/2024_ScaredyKIT#May:_Graphic_Novels_and_...

I have 6 or 7 graphic novels on my tbr that appear to fit (2 or 3 by Gaiman!). I'll have to see which my library has. (Hopefully they'll have at least one!)

I've been meaning to continue with Sandman for a while now - looks like I'm up to Vol. 3 - good time to get back to it!

I'm going with A Skeleton At the Helm, a collection of spooky sea stories.

I've been hearing fantastic things about Never Whistle at Night, which is on my TBR, but I think I'm going to go with another anthology for this month. Humans are the Problem: A Monster's Anthology has been staring at me from beside my desk for months, and I think I'm too curious at this point to let the staring go on any longer!

I have Something Is Killing The Children Volume 1 which looks suitably scary!

I am doing the June ScaredyKIT. I wanted to let everyone know I will be away from May 12-18, so right when it would usually be posted. I doubt I'll be ready to post it before I leave, so it will likely be done the 19th or 20th. As a reminder the theme will be "serial killers" if anyone wanted a head start on finding something.

I read a nonfiction graphic novel, Vlad the Impaler for this month's challenge. The book is very graphic in its illustrations of Vlad's rapes and murders.

I read Something Is Killing The Children Volume 1 - ended very much up in the air so will need to get Volume 2 soon!

Gnaw by Jennifer Morrow in Vexed to Nightmare anthology
Even though I enjoy bloody Scottish and Scandi crime fiction, the horror genre has never appealed as reading material so I have to admit the story by Jennifer Morrow (known as mstrust here at LT) was the only one in the collection that I read. Her creation is a truly horrific concept but the suspense and anticipation only adds to the terror.

Well done, Jennifer!

Ha, I didn't expect to find my own work listed, so thanks! I'm glad you could handle it and I appreciate that you took the time. (And I was surprised to find that my story was probably the goriest, so you may have no trouble with the others.)

>11 mstrust: It certainly had the goriest kiss ever!

I'll get to the other stories eventually. I think I can handle anything now!

😁 Sorry for the trauma! 🧟

>13 mstrust: No worries! I'll be ok again in a week or two! 😳