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A funny mean streak runs through the promising coming-of-age thriller “Don’t Tell a Soul,” a horror story about two brothers whose abusive relationship is inevitably tested after they steal some money and trap a witness to their crime in a well. That mean streak is, as you might imagine, the emotional glue that keeps shy Joey (Jack Dylan Grazer) stuck to his vicious brother Matt (Fionn Whitehead), who pressures Joey into sneaking into an elderly neighbor’s home (while it’s being fumigated), and stealing $10,000 from a cookie tin. Advertisement What you might not expect from “Don�...

In the introduction to the massive, gorgeously illustrated recent book The History of EC Comics, author Grant Geissman asks, “Why should there be a gigantic, weighty tome in celebration of these comics?” His answer: “Put simply, because this lesser-known company had an enormous impact on American pop culture, managing to be both commercially successful as well as boldly innovative. At its creative peak in the 1950s . . . EC reads like a ‘who’s who’ of mid-20th Century comic books.” Founded by legendary comic book pioneer M. C. Gaines, then inherited by his son William Gaines i...

ORPHAN & FIVE BEASTS #1 (OF 4) DARK HORSE COMICS (W) James Stokoe (A/CA) James Stokoe A brand-new kung-fu epic from James Stokoe, the creator behind Orc Stain and Aliens: Dead Orbit! Spurred on by her master’s dying words, the adopted warrior “Orphan Mo” seeks to find and kill five former disciples who now threaten the land with corruption from their demonic powers. Part Five Deadly Venoms and part surreal grindhouse, James Stokoe brings his knack for ultra-detailed fantasy imagery and over-the-top violence to this classic tale of revenge. “His artwork is astonishingly detailed, with ...

By PW Staff | In a year like no other, PW's reviews editors kept up their usual industriousness and published thousands of book reviews. These are the most popular of those, for books published in 2020. Ruth Ware. Scout, $27.99 (384p) ISBN 978-1-5011-8881-7 Set in a remote chalet at an exclusive French Alps resort, this tempestuous locked-room mystery from Ware ( The Turn of the Key) centers on the 10-person corporate retreat of social media company Snoop. Snoop’s shareholders—cofounders and ex-lovers Topher St. Clair-Bridges and Eva van den Berg, coder Elliot Cross...

A Christmas Carol is an all-time classic, having seen numerous remakes over the years. It’s also, above all else, a ghost story. When Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmases Past, Present, and Future, what they reveal is terrifying enough to transform his character completely by the film’s end. Let The Right One In Sure, it's not a holiday movie in the traditional sense, but the quaint, wintry setting of a Stockholm suburb sets the stage for this tale of revenge and blossoming young love. A boy, bullied by his classmates, meets his next-door neighbor who just so