The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty-five singular illustrations, without words, of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths, where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard, where a white surface is covered with a black layer and scratched away, Ott creates images out of negative space to harrowing effect. In Ott's hands, the medium becomes the perfect vessel for his eerie, horror-imbued morality tales. This gorgeous volume will be printed on heavy art paper with Pantone Black ink to best showcase every exquisite detail of Ott's virtuosic talent. Black-and-white illustrations throughout

R.I.P. 1985-2004 Thomasa Otta to blisko dwadziescia niewiarygodnych opowiesci o morderstwach, samobójstwach, przesladowaniach, terrorze, zbrodniach, problemach malzenskich i atomowej zagladzie. Komiks ten jest obszernym zbiorem dotychczasowych prac szwajcarskiego rysownika, filmowca, muzyka, mistrza grozy i czarnego humoru. Zawiera calosc jego trzech nowelowych albumów (Tales of Error, Greetings from Hellville, Dead End) oraz krótkie historie, które pojawialy sie w antologiach i magazynach, w tym rzecz przygotowana do scenariusza Davida B., autora Rycerzy swietego Wita. ,,Ponury, makabryczny, chory, cyniczny, niepokojacy" - takie przymiotniki czesto slyszy sie w kontekscie twórczosci Thomasa Otta. W jego komiksowych opowiesciach juz od pierwszej chwili wiadomo, ze stanie sie cos zlego i ze nie ma od tego ucieczki. Potem zas czytelnik jest stopniowo wciagany coraz glebiej w bagno. Groza tych historii nie wynika z nadnaturalnych sil - demonów, upiorów, wampirów - jest natomiast konsekwencja ludzkich slabosci i wad: glupoty, bezmyslnosci, chciwosci, próznosci. Tu platny morderca zostanie przechytrzony przez cyrkowego magika, czlonek Ku Klux Klanu pozna prawdziwe znaczenie magii voodoo, a walizka pelna pieniedzy stanie sie katalizatorem wielu nieszczesc. A to zaledwie kilka przykladów ,,codziennych porcji koszmaru", jakie serwuje nam Ott. Komiksowe historie Thomasa Otta nie sa pozbawione ironii i humoru. Jest to jednak humor wyjatkowo czarny. Tak, jak plansze szwajcarskiego rysownika, który stosuje niezwykla technike: z arkuszy papieru pokrytych gruba warstwa czarnego tuszu wydrapuje przy pomocy japonskiego noza kazda kreske. Ich setki ukladaja sie w porazajacy precyzja rysunek. W swojej twórczosci Thomas Ott siega po sprawdzone gatunki: dreszczowiec, horror, science fiction, czarny kryminal. Dzieki nim latwiej dociera do podswiadomych leków naszych i swoich. Jak mówi: ,,Moja praca ma charakter egzorcyzmu. Za kazdym razem, gdy ukoncze jakies opowiadanie, czuje ulge". Czy poczujecie ja równiez Wy??

A warped and mysterious family are unable to leave the house they reside in for unknown reasons. When this strange brood decide to turn their captivity into a sick and violent game, it challenges their very reality and puts all of their lives in great jeopardy.

Having been gone for three years, closeted advertising executive Adrian returns to his Texas hometown and struggles to reveal his dire circumstances to his conservative family.

Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust after redemption, and then there are those hoping for a little of both. A universe of unlikely and reluctant heroes still trying to do the right thing in a city that refuses to care.

1965 film by Tomu Uchida

Follow-up to the TV trilogy “Heimat”, this time for cinemas, set again in the fictional village Schabbach in the Hunsrück region of Rhineland-Palatinate.

2011 film by Béla Tarr, Ágnes Hranitzky

A tale of murder, crime and punishment set in the summer of 1949. Ed Crane, a barber in a small California town, is dissatisfied with his life, but his wife Doris' infidelity and a mysterious opportunity presents him with a chance to change it.

An anthology of eleven vignettes featuring star-studded casts of extremely unique individuals who all share the common activities of conversing while drinking coffee and smoking cigarettes.

A pathologist experiments with a deaf-mute woman who is unable to scream to prove that humans die of fright due to an organism he names The Tingler that lives within each person on the spinal cord and is suppressed only when people scream when scared.

1992 film by Aki Kaurismäki

In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatment, is summoned to Gorslava by the mysterious Baron Sardonicus—who is now married to Cargrave's former wife, Maude—to treat his disfigurement. When Cargrave arrives, he finds the masked baron is a cruel sadist who has threatened to harm Maude if he is not successfully cured.

2007 film by Lorenzo Mattotti, Charles Burns

若未知的世界让人心生恐惧， 我们是自我封闭，还是勇敢走出去？ 欧洲著名漫画诗人夏布特 最敏感忧伤的“慢镜头图像小说” 讲述人类心底无法承受的孤独和渴望拥有的自由 ................... ※编辑推荐※ 这是一部探索现代人内在情感的图像小说，引导读者直面人生中的种种精神困境。故事讲述了一个被父母之爱所“禁闭”、只能靠想象力生活的畸形怪人，渐渐在词典的语言碎片和无名水手的帮助下，找到了真正属于他自己的人生。作品以独特的“慢镜头”叙事方法勾勒出人性中的美丑、孤独、胆怯、恐惧……具有极深的哲学意义和艺术价值。 希望《灯塔》能为深处浮躁社会的我们，寻得一盏明净的灯光，照亮那被遗忘的自信、善心和勇气。也许，这里会成为你下一个独自出航的港口，夜色庇护，此处独明。 ★ 《灯塔》是2009年安古兰国际漫画节入选作品，目前已有德语、日语、西班牙语、波兰语等多国语言版本。它在2015年4月还被法国话剧导演搬上戏剧舞台。 ★ 《灯塔》呈现了图像小说中独有的慢镜头叙事手法，用丰富的景别转换和对剪影、轮廓的细致描绘推进故事情节。同时，作品还巧妙捕捉了事物在各个角度呈现的情感意象，充满了神秘的哲学气质。 ★ 《灯塔》作者克里斯多夫·夏布特是曾两次获得安古兰国际漫画节大奖的法国作家，画风干净有力又不失细腻。他曾改编过阿蒂尔·兰波、赫尔曼·梅尔维尔和杰克·伦敦等文学家的经典作品，被业界誉为“漫画家中的诗人”。其中，他根据美国著名现实主义作家杰克·伦敦的短篇小说《生火》改编的同名漫画，也即将由后浪出版公司出版，敬请关注。 ................... ※内容简介※ 茫茫大海上的一座灯塔里，住着一位畸形怪人。因为相貌丑陋，他自出生起就被藏在塔中，与世隔绝地生活了五十年。父母留下的旧词典，是他认识外界的唯一窗口，在每个孤独的夜晚，点亮他想象中的世界。当他闭上眼睛、用手随意指向一个单词时，那些荒诞离奇的画面便接踵而来…… 直到有一天，渔船上新来了一位沉默寡言的水手，他用自己别样的方式，轻轻敲开了怪人心底紧锁的大门…… ............... ※推荐语※ 《灯塔》堪称一部发人深省的哲学漫画，作者创造了一个异化、空虚的独特空间，具有强烈的现实主义意味。作品的结尾正好与我的想法不谋而合，它在结束的同时又开启了比孤独更为深远的课题——无私与宽容。 ——漫画家Joël Heirman 376页至纯至深的情感，温情和幽默，忧伤和欢喜，互相交错，如梦如幻，它让我思考，又让我心碎。感谢夏布特，带给我一段如此凄美的孤独旅程。 ——日本读者 夏布特从来都不惧挑战，这一回他选择了大海作为故事背景，仅仅开头几页就显示出他过人的才气。 ——2008年法国《读书》杂志9月刊 一部极简主义的黑白作品，却绽放出如此强烈的人性光辉。 ——法国漫画书评网

A group of scientists is sent to the planet Arkanar to help the local civilization, which is in the Medieval phase of its own history, to find the right path to progress. Their task is a difficult one: they cannot interfere violently and in no case can they kill. The scientist Rumata tries to save the local intellectuals from their punishment and cannot avoid taking a position.

1979 film by Woody Allen

Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the moment, he puts it into his pocket. As the guard lives a solitary, monotonous life, the numbers on the paper awake his curiosity. To find out their hidden meaning could add a new meaning to his life as well, so the guard stumbles into situations in which the number or part of it seem to achieve a certain importance and offer him hints and possible solutions. And the numbers signal a radical change in his luck. He gets to know a woman, falls in love with her, and one night, in a casino, he wins a huge amount of money when gambling on these numbers. But the next morning, the woman and money have disappeared. The man goes in search of the woman and the money. But from that day on, his luck changes and the numbers bring him only bad luck, sending him inexorably into an abyss that he might not recover from. Thomas Ott's O. Henry-esque plot twists will delight fans of classic horror like The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt, or modern masters like filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan; his hallucinatory, hyper-detailed scratchboard illustrations will haunt you long after you've put the book down.

T. Ott plunges into the darkness with five wordless graphic horror novelettes: "The Prophet," "The Wonder Pill," "La Lucha," "The Hotel," and the title story, each executed in his hallucinatory and hyper-detailed scratchboard style. The first story in the book introduces the other four: A little girl visits an amusement park. She looks fascinated, but finds everything too expensive. Finally, behind the rollercoaster she eyeballs a small booth with "CINEMA PANOPTICUM" written on it. Inside there are boxes with screens. Every box contains a movie; the title of each appears on each screen. Each costs only a dime, so the price is right for the little girl. She puts her money in the first box: "The Prophet" begins. In the film, a vagrant foresees the end of the world and tries to warn people, but nobody believes him. They will soon enough.