Carnival of Souls

Let’s kick things off today with The Best Horror Comic Of All Time (TM): Tom Spurgeon links to The Book Standard’s interview with Charles Burns, writer-artist of the absolutely stunning graphic novel about a sexually transmitted mutation in ’70s Seattle teens, Black Hole, which comes out today! Among other topics, Burns answers the question “Why horror?”

I know that I could have told the story just totally straight. I mean, I could have told a similar story. But I wanted to have something that kind of pushed it to an extreme. So I worked with the idea of how, in adolescence, you