Vampires tend to go on at length about their post-life agonies—the romantic intrigues, the moral conflict of blood drinking, the tragic isolation of immortality… Bloodsuckers are chatty folk, once you get past the brooding. Zombie, not so much—we rarely get their perspective on life and undeath; they are simple, mindless creatures. The thinking zombie is an interesting anomaly, often […]
The genre has a venerable, if disreputable, history in comics and graphic novels, particularly with the kind of old-school books that inspired King himself—think Tales from the Crypt. If you find yourself on a King kick after The Outsider, here are eight comics and graphic novels that invoke the spirit of horror’s modern master. What […]