Strange Embrace TPB
By David Hine
For the first time in trade paperback, Active Images presents David Hine's tortured modern gothic tale of madness, death and sexual longing. The world of Strange Embrace is one of pain and sorrow, obsession and damnation -- a world that twists and pollutes the lives of all that enter it. For mature readers.
Readers who like FROM HELL, SANDMAN, HELLBLAZER and Gothic Murder Mysteries will also enjoy STRANGE EMBRACE.
"David Hine's Strange Embrace is a masterful piece of horror fiction. Not content to merely show us 'boo' images, or the same old tired vampires and zombies, we are instead taken down a twisting, winding path of terrors both psychological and supernatural." (4/4 stars)
— Ken Lowery @ Pop Syndicate "Strange Embrace coolly delivers an intense tale of sorrow, sin, and tragedy that has the atmosphere of an Edgar Allan Poe story along with the exotic supernaturalism of Stephen King."
— Lance Victor Eaton @ Book Loons "I had the pleasure of reading Strange Embrace when the lights went out in NYC. It was just me and this scary little book for the entirety of the Great Black Out of 2003. I couldn't wait for the lights to come back on! David Hine is a master and everyone needs to know it."
— Joe Quesada "As gripping and as inescapable as quicksand. Hine unfolds his powerful tale with the precision of an airtight thriller and the mad, terrifying rush of a fever dream."
— Chris Allen, MoviePoopShoot "A graphic novel in the true sense of the word... the shadowy black-and-white artwork keeps the menace simmering."
— Roger Sabin, The Observer UK "200-plus pages of really dense and complex and chilling and easy-to-follow and really damn entertaining storytelling" (10/10)
— Caleb Gerard, Comic World News "An astounding portrayal of sexual perversion, the dark corridors of the human experience, and themes rarely explored in any medium, it will be one to hold onto for a very long time. (5 of 5 bullets)
— Tim Hartnett, Line of Fire Reviews "Hine has clearly mastered the more important notions of horror, knowing when to build and when to reveal the horrific secrets. "
— Randy Lander & Don MacPherson, TheFourthRail.com ""Hine weaves a hypnotic tale about a malicious clairvoyant obsessed with a tragically dysfunctional family. A truly scary horror story." (Ranked #112 of the 200 Best Comics in the Industry)
— Chris Staros, The Staros Report , Top Shelf Productions "In a just world this would be recognized among the best comics ever."
— Obscure Comics "Delving deep into childhood fears the starkly powerful Strange Embrace establishes David Hine as one of Britain's most exceptional talents."
— Time Out "Strange Embrace is a terrifically twisted gothic tale of love and lust, betrayal and madness, diseases of the body and the mind. It's also a minor masterpiece of modern horror comics."
— Sam Costello, Little Terrors "A beautifully structured and elegantly propulsive tale of sexual repression and obsession. (Hine's) ability to deliver the goods in telling this horror story is without question." (4.5/5)
— Alan David Doane, Comic Book Galaxy
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