Books are Nice Week keeps rolling along with a touch of the Gothic
We wrote a little about the new graphic novel Gothic Classics Volume 14 yesterday, but received more information about it today, and since it is Books are Nice week here at AustenBlog, thought we would post a follow-up. First, from the publisher’s official press release:
Eureka Productions is pleased to announce the publication of GOTHIC CLASSICS: Graphic Classics Volume Fourteen, an all-new graphic novel.
GOTHIC CLASSICS is the third multi-author anthology in the GRAPHIC CLASSICS series of adaptations of great literature. The book presents Ann Radcliffe’s archetypal gothic novel “The Mysteries of Udolpho,” adapted by Antonella Caputo and Carlo Vergara. Plus Jane Austen’s gothic parody “Northanger Abbey,” by Trina Robbins and Anne Timmons, and Poe’s “The Oval Portrait,” by Malaysian illustrator Leong Wan Kok. Also “At the Gate,” a canine ghost story by Myla Jo Closser, illustrated by Shary Flenniken, and J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s great vampire tale “Carmilla,” by Rod Lott and Lisa K. Weber. With a dramatic cover painting from “Carmilla” by Lisa K. Weber.
GOTHIC CLASSICS: Graphic Classics Volume Fourteen is available in bookstores, comics shops, or direct from the publisher at http://www.graphicclassics.com.
For a more objective viewpoint, check out the review of the anthology in Publisher’s Weekly:
Ann Radcliffe’s inimitable “Mysteries of Udolpho” is rendered in a faithful, nearly documentary style by Carlo Vergara, while Jane Austen’s play upon the gothic, “Northanger Abbey,” is charmingly illustrated by Anne Timmons.
Sounds like a winner; we cannot wait to spend two days reading it, our hair standing on end the whole time. 
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Oh goodness, another book for the pile on the bedside table. I believe this one will land at the top of the pile.so many books, so little time…