The Creeps: A Deep Dark Fears Collection

by Fran Krause

Overview

A follow-up to the New York Times best-selling Deep Dark Fears: a second volume of comics based on people's quirky, spooky, hilarious, and terrifying fears.

Illustrator, animator, teacher, and comic artist Fran Krause has touched a collective nerve with his wildly popular web comic series and subsequent book Deep Dark Fears. Here he brings readers more of the creepy, funny, and idiosyncratic fears they love illustrated in comic form--such as the fear that your pets will tell other animals all your embarrassing secrets, or that someone uses your house while you're not home--as well as two longer comic short-stories about ghosts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780399579158
Publisher:	Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed
Publication date:	09/26/2017
Sold by:	Random House
Format:	eBook
Pages:	144
File size:	184 MB
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About the Author

FRAN KRAUSE is an animator and cartoonist. He is currently a teacher in the character animation program at CalArts, creator of several cartoons, and the creator of the Deep Dark Fears webcomic series and book.

Editorial Reviews

Selected for the American Library Association's 2018 Great Graphic Novels for Teens

"Krause’s gripping second collection of nightmare confessions (submitted to his popular webcomic by readers) is an excellent choice for readers who want to be spooked but also provoked into thought. . . Subtle, haunting vignettes for older teens and adults."
— Booklist

". . .a book through which you owe yourself a trip."
— iHorror.com

"It understands the spectrum of fears and manages to capture an exceptionally authentic human experience. . . I cannot recommend it enough."
— ComicsVerse.com

From the Publisher

11/01/2017
On his website, Krause invites readers to share their darkest fears, which he then turns into brief comic strips. The results, as seen in his popular webcomic Deep Dark Fears; his first graphic novel, of the same name; and here, are phenomenal. Many of the comics are a morbid combination of terrifying and funny: "When stuffed animals are made, they're living, breathing creatures—but they suffocated in their packaging, and we play with their lifeless bodies." Others are more poignant, such as a musing on the potentially fleeting nature of online friendship. Most, though, are relatively lighthearted, even as they speak to common fears such as ghosts, death and dismemberment, and urban legends. Krause's witty, quirky illustrations, along with his careful selection and organization of material, draw the fears into a unified whole, though he acknowledges that we all have varied dreads. Readers may even come away with new terrors: "Sometimes when the sun is bright, I worry my glasses will amplify the light, like a magnifying glass can do to ants, and I'll get two holes burned through my head." VERDICT An excellent option for fans of offbeat comics and dark humor.—Mark Flowers, Springstowne Library, Vallejo, CA

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