a lot of it is pretty standard slumber party stuff, but i appreciated how this one was more bittersweet than horror. That is to say: I was racing to finish reading it before sunset because I’m not about to be scared out of leaving my bedroom. Pam Smy studied Illustration at Cambridge School of Art, part of Anglia Ruskin University, where she now lectures part-time. En esencia, es una lectura muy recomendable, con una bonita y cuidada edición que se disfruta pero que puede que a los que tengamos muchas lecturas en las espaldas se nos quede un poco "coja" en cuanto a trama. Parallel plotlines, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door.

The author has chosen to tell her story in a combination of words and images because that is the most powerful means of conveying it. it’s also a breeze of a read, as half of the story is sequential art and the other half is diary entries. Y el pasado en forma de diario y que transcurre en el año 1982, narrado por Mary Baines sobre lo ocurrido en ese antiguo orfanato para chicas llamado Thornhill.Determined to befriend the girl and solidify the link between them, Ella resolves to unravel Thornhill's shadowy past. Igualmente lo guardaré como oro en paño para que en unos años nuestras hijas puedan disfrutar de este tétrico cuento. Tiene un final bastante sorprendente y de esos que erizan los vellos de todo el cuerpo mientras te das cuenta de todo lo que ha sucedido casi sin darte cuenta. By choosing to have an entry inscribed in the book, the individual is not only having a memorial that is permanent, but is remembering their loved one in a personal and unique way.

Esta historia es dura, cruel, descorazonadora y turbia, muy turbia y, sin embargo, es una narración tan necesaria y deliciosa que te va a dejar una huella difícil de borrar. Pero claro, empiezas a leerla con ese animo y, de pronto, encuentras detalles que no esperabas encontrar en una obra de este calibre. Re-read as an adult, you watch with horror as lonely and damaged Jane falls in to the arms of what suddenly seems a secretive and abusive Mr Rochester. Thornhill is a ghost-story; a proper haunted house story with a dark seam of psychological drama woven into its fabric.

Combining the past (1982) with the present, THORNHILL revolves around Mary, a quiet girl living at the orphanage waiting to be adopted. It represents a significant investment, both in time and in money, in the design of a book that, as an object, is also part of the story; it also shows the impressive commitment of a publisher to an illustrator and author.

I know that publishers do love to persuade us all that books fit nicely into little boxes, but I’ve never met an author who tells me that their books are for 8-12 year olds; you are more likely to hear from an author simply that ’It’s a book’. Thornhill was not scary to me as an adult but it probably would be to the kids in age demographic it was written for.I was bullied MERCILESSLY in middle school, so I wanted the bullied Mary to get back at her tormentor. In this country we have only the vaguest appreciation of the value of comics and graphic novels as a storytelling form. Part diary, part wordless illustration, this is an intelligent dual-narrative, gothic graphic novel whose characters and landscape burn tangibly with life. Meanwhile in France, they are exploring historical realism in Graphic Novel form as part of a mainstream trend in adult reading.

In most cases, the cover design is an afterthought by the publisher – a process that happens at the end, in which the author often has only a little input, and which is carried out to a budget determined by how the author’s importance is perceived through the sales-glazed eyes of the publisher.El desarrollo de esta historia, su inesperado desenlace, sus miles de interpretaciones, lecturas y su puñetazo sobre la mesa de un problema real que a todos nos aterra convierten esta novela en una deliciosa e inesperada maravilla.