Bones of the Coast: Tales of Terror from the Pacific Northwest -Graphic Novel - Anthology

Bones of the Coast is a 220-page full-colour comic anthology of horror inspired by the Pacific Northwest, featuring indie cartoonists! From bone-ragged mountaintops to seaweed tendrils in the deep, this horror anthology invokes themes of the Pacific Northwest with comic creators from British Columbia and beyond. Bones of the Coast is an awesome, scary, beautiful anthology. All of the stories contained inside are both interesting and, well, vaguely upsetting. Which was probably the point. This anthology also serves to show that every visual and narrative style can be used to make a great story. From Kevin Forbes and Reeta Linjama's classic storytelling in The Logging Road to Sean Karemaker's more stylistic approach in The Ghosts We Know, all of these stories are not just effective at, well, telling a story, but also at conveying an atmostphere, which is what more than half of what horror is about in the end. It's not what the story tells you, it's what it makes you feel. As an indie anthology, Bones of the Coast is also full of diversity in both creators and stories, which I believe makes the stories all that more interesting. In some stories, like Christian Haruki Lett and Adam Tuck's Site 17, this diversity (in the form of what I'm assuming to be a trans character) just goes unmentionned and uncommented, a obvious and normal part of the world; while in Jeff Ellis' The Fu-go, the very fact that the story happens in a Canadian Japanese WWII interment camp already makes the reader feel disquieted, and the actual storytelling hasn't even started yet. It's a rich, complex setting that the author then masterfully uses to enrich their story.