Sickness In The Family HC - Hardcover

Mina, Denise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1401210813 ISBN 13: 9781401210816

Publisher: DC Comics, 2010

Synopsis

Written by DENISE MINA Art by ANTONIO FUSO Cover by LEE BERMEJO Denise Mina, award-winning crime novelist, brings her psychological style of crime fiction to Vertigo Crime. Meet the Ushers. The parents, Ted and Biddy. Grandma Martha. The three kids, William, Amy and Sam. Just a normal, middle-class family gathered around the table on Christmas Day. Until they start dying. Violent deaths. One by one. Is there a curse on their house, as a recently unearthed history of witchcraft in the area would suggest? Or has one member of the Usher clan declared open season on the rest? As secrets and resentments boil to the surface, it becomes clear that more than one Usher has a motive for killing off the others. But in the end, the truth turns out to be far more shocking than anyone in this ill-fated family could have imagined. On sale OCTOBER 13 • 5.5” x 8”, 192 pg, B&W, $19.99 US • MATURE READERS

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Product Description

Stricken with grief from the death of his girlfriend, Sith, Guy Salvatore struggles to make sense of his world. He's plagued with hallucinations of monsters that torment him with outrageous requests. Enter Satan: a strange, old man who implores Guy to call upon his latent power to break through his world's plane to rescue Sith, who he claims is floating aimlessly in and out of dimensional planes known as the "Dream Worlds." But is Satan to be trusted?

Review

Denise Mina has crafted a perfectly twisted little tale that reveals the darkness and horror festering just beneath the surface of everyday life. And you think your family is messed up. Andy Diggle (The Losers) "Cunning, deft, and deeply disturbing. Mina's work plays with your expectations and messes with your head, winding its way along a truly dark path to an ultimately inevitable conclusion that will leave you walking with its echoes for days to come." Greg Rucka (Patriot Acts, Whiteout)" "Denise Mina has crafted a perfectly twisted little tale that reveals the darkness and horror festering just beneath the surface of everyday life. And you think your family is messed up." --Andy Diggle (The Losers) "Cunning, deft, and deeply disturbing. Mina's work plays with your expectations and messes with your head, winding its way along a truly dark path to an ultimately inevitable conclusion that will leave you walking with its echoes for days to come." --Greg Rucka (Patriot Acts, Whiteout) "Denise Mina has crafted a perfectly twisted little tale that reveals the darkness and horror festering just beneath the surface of everyday life. And you think your family is messed up." -Andy Diggle (The Losers) "Cunning, deft, and deeply disturbing. Mina's work plays with your expectations and messes with your head, winding its way along a truly dark path to an ultimately inevitable conclusion that will leave you walking with its echoes for days to come." -Greg Rucka (Patriot Acts, Whiteout)

Edition details

• Publisher: DC Comics
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1401210813
• ISBN 13: 9781401210816
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192