Gothic Horror Set Across the Globe

Inklore, publisher of Delusion by Hongjacga“Do not finish the portrait . . .” Nothing is ever quite as it seems in this sinister, slow-build gothic horror comic set in 1930s Seoul, soon to be a drama airing on Disney+. Struggling painter Son Iho is commissioned to paint a portrait of the elderly and reclusive Madam Song. But when he actually meets Madam Song, he finds her to be startlingly young and beautiful—yet she still demands to be painted as though she were 80. In a slowly unfolding revelation, each panel drenched in more dread than the last, Iho starts to suspect the horrifying truth of what she is, and what she might be capable of . . . There are a lot of strange, dark corners in the world. Doorways that feel wrong. Floorboards with scuffmarks that won’t ever come out. In a gothic horror novel, the dread and creeping is built, just like a house. The setting is a character all its own. From rolling fog to broken cobblestones. Those details let the reader know, oh yeah, we’re about to be unsettled. Beyond the crumbling mansions and churchyards of classic Gothic fiction, global gothic horror invites readers to understand terror from a different perspective. A story of a young ...