The_Mad_Swede’s Reviews > Strange Embrace and Other Nightmares > Status Update

Read the four-pager "Martin", which is black and white, slightly Kafkaesque and surreal piece. These short pieces underlines David Hine's brilliance (well established in Strange Embrace itself), and I find myself wanting to really savour them, one at a time.

Read the short piece "Man on the Roof". A wonderful little narrative.

Finished the main story and loved it. An almost 200-page graphic novel horror tale, primarily set in the early 20th century but with a distinct feel of Victorian Gothic married with ideas of sexual repression suited to that era. The layers of the narrative and the various characters driving the plot forward in the four chapters are impressively brought to life both in the writing and the disturbingly suggestive art.