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Ragemoor
Ragemoor ! Vestige de civilisations disparues, le Château de Ragemoor est un lieu maudit pour les hommes ! Nourries de sang païen versé au cours de sacrifices rituels impies depuis des temps immémoriaux, ses pierres cachent de sombres et terrifiants secrets, fatals aux rares inconscients qui seraient prêts à s’y aventurer…
Herbert Ragemoor est le maître du château. Il vit dans l’isolement, fidèlement servi par Bodrick, le majordome, tandis que son père, complètement fou, erre dans les couloirs qu’il parcourt en hurlant, nu. Jusqu’au jour où vient leur rendre visite l’ambitieux oncle JP, accompagné de sa superbe fille Anoria, qui rêve de s’approprier les lieux…
Au croisement des univers de H.P. Lovecraft ou des histoires les plus sombres d’ E.A. Poe, Ragemoor est une oeuvre magistrale issue de l’imagination débridée de Richard Corben et Jan Strnad. Ces maitres du Neuvième Art réunis à nouveau en 2012 pour cette œuvre, signent ici un classique fantastique qui ne pouvait être traduit que par François Truchaud, directeur éditorial des mythiques Editions NéO qui ont permis la découverte en France des plus grands auteurs de littérature fantastique et de fantasy.
Après plus de sept ans sans publication originale dans l’hexagone, voici une nouveauté exclusive signée Richard Corben !
Herbert Ragemoor est le maître du château. Il vit dans l’isolement, fidèlement servi par Bodrick, le majordome, tandis que son père, complètement fou, erre dans les couloirs qu’il parcourt en hurlant, nu. Jusqu’au jour où vient leur rendre visite l’ambitieux oncle JP, accompagné de sa superbe fille Anoria, qui rêve de s’approprier les lieux…
Au croisement des univers de H.P. Lovecraft ou des histoires les plus sombres d’ E.A. Poe, Ragemoor est une oeuvre magistrale issue de l’imagination débridée de Richard Corben et Jan Strnad. Ces maitres du Neuvième Art réunis à nouveau en 2012 pour cette œuvre, signent ici un classique fantastique qui ne pouvait être traduit que par François Truchaud, directeur éditorial des mythiques Editions NéO qui ont permis la découverte en France des plus grands auteurs de littérature fantastique et de fantasy.
Après plus de sept ans sans publication originale dans l’hexagone, voici une nouveauté exclusive signée Richard Corben !
118 pages, Hardcover
First published November 20, 2012
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Richard Corben
541 books149 followersAmerican illustrator and comic book artist best known for his comics featured in Heavy Metal magazine. He won the 2009 Spectrum Grand Master Award. In 2012 he was elected to the The Will Eisner Award Hall of Fame.
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December 13, 2020
"Vi un mundo, un extraño, pétreo mundo de bestias monolíticas enfrentadas en eterno combate
vi fisuras que escupían agua de las profundidades subterráneas
vi a las criaturas rocosas tragadas por mares crecientes de agua hirviente y venenosa
y les vi arrastrados hacia la oscuridad eterna por horrendos monstruos nacidos en las profundidades insondables...
A través de las Heras han adorado a las míticas criaturas alienígenas como si fueran dioses, a los que les dedicaban sacrificios para hacerlos fuertes contra el sol,. Para devolverlos a la superficie y ejercer la supremacía sobre todas las cosas vivas"
"Elemental e implacable
inexorable
monolítico
a lo largo de los siglos, sin esfuerzo alguno del hombre, el castillo de Ragemoor se convirtió en el monumento que es hoy...un monumento al mal"
Seres primigenios se esconden debajo de los cimientos de Ragemoor. es mucho mas que una estructura monolítica, que un antiguo castillo. Su concepción es un mito, pero le han rendido culto y sacrificio a sus muros y los seres que alberga.
su estructura cambia por si sola, sus pasadizos aparecen y desaparecen. vestigios de una familia que parece haber sido azotada por la locura.
Gótico, lovecraftiano, con giros macabros a lo Poe y situaciones y personajes bizarros. Con los lapices de el gran Richard Corben y un color ceniza que lo impregna todo... Sale humo de sus Páginas .
R.I.P Richard Corben 1940/2020
vi fisuras que escupían agua de las profundidades subterráneas
vi a las criaturas rocosas tragadas por mares crecientes de agua hirviente y venenosa
y les vi arrastrados hacia la oscuridad eterna por horrendos monstruos nacidos en las profundidades insondables...
A través de las Heras han adorado a las míticas criaturas alienígenas como si fueran dioses, a los que les dedicaban sacrificios para hacerlos fuertes contra el sol,. Para devolverlos a la superficie y ejercer la supremacía sobre todas las cosas vivas"
"Elemental e implacable
inexorable
monolítico
a lo largo de los siglos, sin esfuerzo alguno del hombre, el castillo de Ragemoor se convirtió en el monumento que es hoy...un monumento al mal"
Seres primigenios se esconden debajo de los cimientos de Ragemoor. es mucho mas que una estructura monolítica, que un antiguo castillo. Su concepción es un mito, pero le han rendido culto y sacrificio a sus muros y los seres que alberga.
su estructura cambia por si sola, sus pasadizos aparecen y desaparecen. vestigios de una familia que parece haber sido azotada por la locura.
Gótico, lovecraftiano, con giros macabros a lo Poe y situaciones y personajes bizarros. Con los lapices de el gran Richard Corben y un color ceniza que lo impregna todo... Sale humo de sus Páginas .
R.I.P Richard Corben 1940/2020
March 8, 2018
The initial premise of a carnivorous, amorphous mansion and its captive lineage of lords is a promising one, but any genuine horror to be explored is set aside as each turn of the page reveals more under-cooked cosmic implications to the narrative or introduces some new species of insectoid plebe or generic tentacled menace, none of it congealing together under any uniform vision of existential terror. While it is certainly interesting to see a Victorian-esque Gothic casted with black characters, they are unfortunately uninteresting ones; and here again is the problem with Ragemoor. It is a brisk read with detailed and grotesque artwork, but the story never rises above its obvious influences of Poe and Lovecraft, leaving the reader with a shallow and forgettable experience.
April 26, 2016
Corben was one of my faves as an adolescent. He'd model realistic figures with vibrant, smooth color gradations, and they always seemed naughty. At 70 years old, he's still cranking it out in Ragemoor, and what he loses in execution (finer details can feel a little heavy-handed), he makes up for in conception (the living castle and all the covers in general rank with his best work).
Strnad's story can seem contrived and the characters often serve merely to push the plot forward, but it's not a catastrophe.
Overall the weaknesses pull the grade down to three stars, but there are 5-star artistic highlights here.
Strnad's story can seem contrived and the characters often serve merely to push the plot forward, but it's not a catastrophe.
Overall the weaknesses pull the grade down to three stars, but there are 5-star artistic highlights here.
June 2, 2024
Ragemoor represents the artist Richard Corben at his very best, with haunting black-and-white visuals wrapped around a supernatural plot so ridiculous that it borders on genius. Ragemoor is both an ancient family manor and a living being, where the very stones writhe and buckle at most inconvenient times.
Such a malevolent property needs its servitors, and it has them in the shape of insectoid house servants and the human butler Bodrick, whose experiments with servant venom make Victor Frankenstein's scientific efforts look decidedly tame. Add in the skull-faced apes and sightless white worms that inhabit Ragemoor's nether regions, and it all adds up to a brilliant parody of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" and William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland delivered with enough Gothic grandeur to satisfy the most discriminating aficionado of weird fiction.
Such a malevolent property needs its servitors, and it has them in the shape of insectoid house servants and the human butler Bodrick, whose experiments with servant venom make Victor Frankenstein's scientific efforts look decidedly tame. Add in the skull-faced apes and sightless white worms that inhabit Ragemoor's nether regions, and it all adds up to a brilliant parody of H.P. Lovecraft's "The Rats in the Walls" and William Hope Hodgson's The House on the Borderland delivered with enough Gothic grandeur to satisfy the most discriminating aficionado of weird fiction.
March 8, 2021
Demencia total. Corben más desatado, desquiciado y morboso que nunca. Una delicia bizarra de pulp sicalíptico
January 14, 2014
I picked up Ragemoor purely for Richard Corben – a horror comic drawn by the legend himself? I’m in! And on the art front, I wasn’t too disappointed, but found the unpronounceable Jan Strnad’s script somewhat lacking. That said this might be a case of the writer accommodating the artists’ wishes, like Corben gave Strnad a list of things he wanted to draw and Strnad tried to make a story out of it.
The book is an interesting mix of two horror staples, Poe and Lovecraft. Ragemoor is a huge gothic castle perched on the edge of a cliff, inhabited by a young aristocrat and his faithful butler, who is visited by a relative and his wife who’re looking to scam them out of their castle. Except the castle is ALIVE – it’s literally this massive stone Transformer that goes from being a monster to a structure and back, over and over! Built atop the blood and bones of a death cult, the grounds are defended by skull-faced baboons from innumerable moloid-like creatures and the castle’s staff consist of a small team of Kafka-esque giant bugs! And the young aristocrat can never leave…
I liked the old school horror aspect of the comic. The gloomy haunted castle and its history is corny as hell but when presented alongside Corben’s art, I can forgive a lot. Strangely, Corben’s black and white art does seem to deteriorate in quality as the book continues. I’m not sure if it’s because he ran out of time and rushed it, or it’s intentional like the art becomes less detailed and focused because the characters are getting crazier and its reflecting their loosening grip on reality.
And while seeing Corben illustrate this book’s horrors is certainly delightful, after a while I wished there was more of a story here. It vaguely becomes about the young aristocrat giving Ragemoor an heir but then descends into unfettered madness. Again, maybe that was the point but it’s not very compelling to read. It doesn’t help that the book is somewhat skewed tonally – it’s more or less your cheesy, melodramatic gothic horror and that’s fine, and then the baboons show up and start fighting some weird little monsters and it starts to feel comedic. Maybe that was unintentional but I would’ve preferred straight horror and think that would’ve worked better overall.
Ragemoor definitely isn’t Corben’s best work but if you’re a fan like me it’s worth picking up for at least the excellent art in the first half of it. It’s also worth checking out if you like horror but don’t mind it with nonsensical, somewhat random and silly twists throughout.
The book is an interesting mix of two horror staples, Poe and Lovecraft. Ragemoor is a huge gothic castle perched on the edge of a cliff, inhabited by a young aristocrat and his faithful butler, who is visited by a relative and his wife who’re looking to scam them out of their castle. Except the castle is ALIVE – it’s literally this massive stone Transformer that goes from being a monster to a structure and back, over and over! Built atop the blood and bones of a death cult, the grounds are defended by skull-faced baboons from innumerable moloid-like creatures and the castle’s staff consist of a small team of Kafka-esque giant bugs! And the young aristocrat can never leave…
I liked the old school horror aspect of the comic. The gloomy haunted castle and its history is corny as hell but when presented alongside Corben’s art, I can forgive a lot. Strangely, Corben’s black and white art does seem to deteriorate in quality as the book continues. I’m not sure if it’s because he ran out of time and rushed it, or it’s intentional like the art becomes less detailed and focused because the characters are getting crazier and its reflecting their loosening grip on reality.
And while seeing Corben illustrate this book’s horrors is certainly delightful, after a while I wished there was more of a story here. It vaguely becomes about the young aristocrat giving Ragemoor an heir but then descends into unfettered madness. Again, maybe that was the point but it’s not very compelling to read. It doesn’t help that the book is somewhat skewed tonally – it’s more or less your cheesy, melodramatic gothic horror and that’s fine, and then the baboons show up and start fighting some weird little monsters and it starts to feel comedic. Maybe that was unintentional but I would’ve preferred straight horror and think that would’ve worked better overall.
Ragemoor definitely isn’t Corben’s best work but if you’re a fan like me it’s worth picking up for at least the excellent art in the first half of it. It’s also worth checking out if you like horror but don’t mind it with nonsensical, somewhat random and silly twists throughout.
June 20, 2019
Fui até Ragemoor como se eu fosse a um "blind date" com esse quadrinho: sem saber muito sobre ele, a não ser a capa mostrando um golem engolindo uma mulher e sabendo que a arte era do virtuose do pontilhismo underground Richad Corben. Ah sim, e tudo apontava que se tratava de um quadrinho de terror. Bem, depois de lidas as suas mais de uma centena de páginas cheguei à conclusão de que não quero ficar com esse quadrinho na minha coleção, que vou passá-lo adiante, porque apesar da bela arte, ele não diz nada para mim. Se ele tivesse mantido o clima da primeira história em que os servos insectóides e os babuínos de caveira do castelo não tivessem sido apresentados, talvez eu conseguisse levar mais a sério e entender o propósito dessa HQ. Mas ela não é nem chocante para justificar tais seres e nem mantém uma ambiência de terror lúgubre como na primeira história. As coisas acabam ultrapassando uma sensível barreira entre o que é bizarro por ser bizarro e o que é bizarro e também é apavorante ou chocante. Ragemoor acaba forçando essa barreira demais da conta e perde as estribeiras do terror bem estabelecido na primeira história. Assim, foi boa a tentativa, mas não conseguiu me conquistar, não.
June 2, 2014
Ragemoor is like a fever dream of Heavy Metal adapting a Roger Corman Poe movie, with a little bit of House on the Borderlands and H.P. Lovecraft (or maybe Clark Ashton Smith) thrown in for good measure, all drawn by the inimitable Richard Corben. It's full of amazing moments, but it's also impossible to not wish that the story would cohere just a little bit better, and while the black and white art is nicely evocative of old horror comic magazines, the covers show how much color would have made the images pop. Still, it's so bizarre and mesmerizing that it gets by on bravado when all else fails.
January 13, 2013
Jan Strnad & Richard Corben
You have to know what you're getting into whenever you read something by this team. You've read one of their team-ups, you've pretty much read them all... but you can never help coming back for more.
You have to know what you're getting into whenever you read something by this team. You've read one of their team-ups, you've pretty much read them all... but you can never help coming back for more.
December 31, 2012
Are all graphic novels written by 12-year-old boys?
December 20, 2013
(Poe + Lovecraft)^3
Bizarre, menacing, maddening, horrific. A fever dream from the Weird Tales era told through the brains of modern men.
Bizarre, menacing, maddening, horrific. A fever dream from the Weird Tales era told through the brains of modern men.
August 19, 2020
Simple Lovecraftian tale told with brilliance by Corben's artwork
December 19, 2023
Muchas fueron las colaboraciones entre Jam Strnad y el mítico Richard Corben mientras este vivía, siendo la más popular su Mundo mutante, pero esta
Ragemoor
fue la última que pudieron realizar juntos.
A Corben siempre le atrajo el género de terror, desde aquellos días de la revista Creepy, con su especial devoción por Edgar Allan Poe, al que tanto adaptó. Lo que encontramos en Ragemoor , sin embargo, es una amalgama entre los relatos de Poe (La caída de la casa Usher, más concretamente) y el universo de horror primigenio de H. P. Lovecraft: Herbert es el señor del castillo de Ragemoor después de que su padre haya sucumbido a la locura, llevado por la creencia de que el castillo es un ser vivo, consciente, que se transforma y reorganiza siguiendo un gran plan que se remonta a los orígenes de la vida en la Tierra.
Extraterrestres rocosos, tentáculos desde las profundidades, sirvientes insectoides, simios calavéricos, sectas de tardígrados gigantes... y un enamoramiento insano que lleva inevitablemente a la perdición. Todo en Ragemoor parece entre ominoso y aleatorio, como un conglomerado de referencias que Strnad lanza a Corben para dar rienda suelta a su polifacético arte que, en blanco y negro, alterna volúmenes con bidimensionalidad provocando una serie de extrañamientos que contribuyen a la atmósfera de insania. El argumento es prácticamente una excusa, el giro lovecraftiano a la casa encantada como huida hacia adelante y descenso a los infiernos, para disfrutar de la maestría narrativa del difunto artista que recurre aquí a todos sus greatest hits para entregar un perfecto destilado corbenita de terror. Hágase la voluntad de Ragemoor, o pereced.
A Corben siempre le atrajo el género de terror, desde aquellos días de la revista Creepy, con su especial devoción por Edgar Allan Poe, al que tanto adaptó. Lo que encontramos en Ragemoor , sin embargo, es una amalgama entre los relatos de Poe (La caída de la casa Usher, más concretamente) y el universo de horror primigenio de H. P. Lovecraft: Herbert es el señor del castillo de Ragemoor después de que su padre haya sucumbido a la locura, llevado por la creencia de que el castillo es un ser vivo, consciente, que se transforma y reorganiza siguiendo un gran plan que se remonta a los orígenes de la vida en la Tierra.
Extraterrestres rocosos, tentáculos desde las profundidades, sirvientes insectoides, simios calavéricos, sectas de tardígrados gigantes... y un enamoramiento insano que lleva inevitablemente a la perdición. Todo en Ragemoor parece entre ominoso y aleatorio, como un conglomerado de referencias que Strnad lanza a Corben para dar rienda suelta a su polifacético arte que, en blanco y negro, alterna volúmenes con bidimensionalidad provocando una serie de extrañamientos que contribuyen a la atmósfera de insania. El argumento es prácticamente una excusa, el giro lovecraftiano a la casa encantada como huida hacia adelante y descenso a los infiernos, para disfrutar de la maestría narrativa del difunto artista que recurre aquí a todos sus greatest hits para entregar un perfecto destilado corbenita de terror. Hágase la voluntad de Ragemoor, o pereced.
July 30, 2023
A fun nexus between the works of Edgar Allan Poe and H.P. Lovecraft, Jan Strnad and Rich Corben delve into a tale of gothic horror starring a sentient castle called Ragemoor. The young lord inhabiting the castle lives with his deranged, mentally broken father and his shrewd butler, seeking a way to escape his inheritence. His uncle comes to visit along with his adoptive daughter, and it quickly becomes apparent that the uncle hopes to steal ownership of Ragemoor. But the castle has its own ideas, and we learn about the ancient horrors that live beneath and within the castle.
The story is pretty lacking - indeed it seems like a direct rip from a similar Corben comic, "The House on the Borderland", but Strnad's script doesn't really do much other than homage works from Poe and Lovecraft. The reason why Ragemoor is interesting is due to the atmospheric horror captured by Corben's brilliant artwork. The downward spiral into insanity is delivered so well here, mostly due to how innovative Corben's work is in that regard. While this is Corben at a much later stage in his career, it's clear that he hasn't really missed a beat at all and continued to deliver some truly deranged bits of horror here.
The story is pretty lacking - indeed it seems like a direct rip from a similar Corben comic, "The House on the Borderland", but Strnad's script doesn't really do much other than homage works from Poe and Lovecraft. The reason why Ragemoor is interesting is due to the atmospheric horror captured by Corben's brilliant artwork. The downward spiral into insanity is delivered so well here, mostly due to how innovative Corben's work is in that regard. While this is Corben at a much later stage in his career, it's clear that he hasn't really missed a beat at all and continued to deliver some truly deranged bits of horror here.
December 3, 2023
Segunda entrega de mis revisiones de Corben, esta vez con Jan Strnad al guion de la historieta breve, que forma un nuevo pastiche aunando homenajes vampíricos, propios de Lovecraft y Poe, junto a otros menos explícitos como Hope Hogdson.
A ver, es entretenido si suspendes la credibilidad, pero no da para mucho y, en verdad, resulta una pena porque podría hacerlo. Los cabos sueltos se resuelven de manera atropellada, limitados por el la exigua longitud de páginas, todo se resuelve de manera muy gratuita. Perdiendo potencia conceptos como el de esa mansión viviente que tanto nos remite a la Casa de Usher.
Visualmente, el trabajo de Corben cae en lo espectacular, lo repulsivo y la impactante representación de los horrores corporales y las criaturas que pueblan el libro. Sólo por eso, merece ya la pena, aunque a estas alturas del partido quizá se quede un poco corto en comparación con las perversidades que se han concebido, en los últimos tiempos, en el manga de Junji Ito, por ejemplo. Sin embargo, prefiero ese aroma victoriano y un poco más clásico.
En el fondo, es una versión en cómic de una película de Corman, la Hammer o de Amicus, elevando el nivel de repugnancia en algunos momentos puntuales que no saldrían en pantalla.
Bien editado por Norma, en tapa dura. Divertido, sin más, si eres un aficionado a este ilustrador o al género. He leído mierdas peores con muchas más pretensiones.
A ver, es entretenido si suspendes la credibilidad, pero no da para mucho y, en verdad, resulta una pena porque podría hacerlo. Los cabos sueltos se resuelven de manera atropellada, limitados por el la exigua longitud de páginas, todo se resuelve de manera muy gratuita. Perdiendo potencia conceptos como el de esa mansión viviente que tanto nos remite a la Casa de Usher.
Visualmente, el trabajo de Corben cae en lo espectacular, lo repulsivo y la impactante representación de los horrores corporales y las criaturas que pueblan el libro. Sólo por eso, merece ya la pena, aunque a estas alturas del partido quizá se quede un poco corto en comparación con las perversidades que se han concebido, en los últimos tiempos, en el manga de Junji Ito, por ejemplo. Sin embargo, prefiero ese aroma victoriano y un poco más clásico.
En el fondo, es una versión en cómic de una película de Corman, la Hammer o de Amicus, elevando el nivel de repugnancia en algunos momentos puntuales que no saldrían en pantalla.
Bien editado por Norma, en tapa dura. Divertido, sin más, si eres un aficionado a este ilustrador o al género. He leído mierdas peores con muchas más pretensiones.
December 18, 2017
Mám z tohto naozaj, že naozaj zmiešané pocity xD
Mne sa veľmi páčila myšlienka, že samotný hrad je žijúci orgnamizmus, ktorý je ochránca a zároveň vykonávateľ spravodlivosti. Čo sa týka charakterov postáv tak nič moc, skôr ma zaujala idea "mimozemského" zla, proti ktorému nás chráni Ragemoor. Ragemoor nás tiež naučí, že nie vždy je smrť najhorším trestom (Anoria by vedela rozprávať ... xD), naopak smrť prináša vyslobodenie.
*Miestami som až prílíš mala chuť začať čítať Kafku xD
*Čiernobiela kresba dodáva tomu správnu atmosféru a to aj bez hektolitrov krvi
*Rada by som sa doozvedela niečo viac o Herbovom otci ... Tiež by som rada vedela viac o minulosti Ragemooru a popríde niečo z jeho budúcnosti
*Nevravím, že kresba ma úplne posadila na zadok a že dej nemá slabé miesta, ale stejne je to páčivo desivé :)
Mňa osobne veľmi zaujala tento článok a vlastne recenzia k tomutu komiksu (nie, nepísala som ho ja ani nikto známy, ale vážne je to super napísané ! :))
http://www.comics-blog.cz/2013/05/102...
Mne sa veľmi páčila myšlienka, že samotný hrad je žijúci orgnamizmus, ktorý je ochránca a zároveň vykonávateľ spravodlivosti. Čo sa týka charakterov postáv tak nič moc, skôr ma zaujala idea "mimozemského" zla, proti ktorému nás chráni Ragemoor. Ragemoor nás tiež naučí, že nie vždy je smrť najhorším trestom (Anoria by vedela rozprávať ... xD), naopak smrť prináša vyslobodenie.
*Miestami som až prílíš mala chuť začať čítať Kafku xD
*Čiernobiela kresba dodáva tomu správnu atmosféru a to aj bez hektolitrov krvi
*Rada by som sa doozvedela niečo viac o Herbovom otci ... Tiež by som rada vedela viac o minulosti Ragemooru a popríde niečo z jeho budúcnosti
*Nevravím, že kresba ma úplne posadila na zadok a že dej nemá slabé miesta, ale stejne je to páčivo desivé :)
Mňa osobne veľmi zaujala tento článok a vlastne recenzia k tomutu komiksu (nie, nepísala som ho ja ani nikto známy, ale vážne je to super napísané ! :))
http://www.comics-blog.cz/2013/05/102...
December 27, 2020
Richard Corbens art is like no other. From page one he pulls you into this odd, grotesquely beautiful, gothic wasteland. He simultaneously creates a world where all you want to do is to leave, yet you cant help yourself from staying. He was a perfect choice for drawing this type of story.
Speaking of story, because this is a GoodREADS review not Gooddoodle review.
I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Not entirely! But thoroughly, if I could get rid of the awful star system I would give it a 92%
Theres ideas and a whole lot of them being passed around in a very short amount of time. All of them being very poe and lovecraftian. Some ideas are great and some seem to fall flat or not flushed enough. But when they land they stick.
Speaking of story, because this is a GoodREADS review not Gooddoodle review.
I thoroughly enjoyed this one. Not entirely! But thoroughly, if I could get rid of the awful star system I would give it a 92%
Theres ideas and a whole lot of them being passed around in a very short amount of time. All of them being very poe and lovecraftian. Some ideas are great and some seem to fall flat or not flushed enough. But when they land they stick.
March 15, 2019
Apparently this is written by a friend and former colleague of my father in law, who shoved it at me to read while we were staying with them while our apartment was being renovated. I love it. A very fast moving and creepy gothic outing vacillating between Lovecraft and Poe, that somehow makes the breathless pace of the insanity on the page feel totally natural. The artwork isn't quite to my taste, but it fits the material and certainly has a charm to it.
It's the kind of book that doesn't look particularly interesting if you're casually flipping through it, but totally engrossing and a mega page-turner as an actual read.
It's the kind of book that doesn't look particularly interesting if you're casually flipping through it, but totally engrossing and a mega page-turner as an actual read.
January 7, 2025
Definitely an interesting read. The concept is cool, but it's all over the place - things appear to never be mentioned again and some other things are not that fleshed out. It had great ideas though, so that helps this book be interesting even with those flaws.
The art is cool, but especially in the beginning really messy. When exploring the castle I can't really tell what am I looking at and what is happening. The art gets better later on, so it's not much of an issue.
All in all, it really is what is being advertised - a cool looking comic with dark gods from before out time and their old worshippers. It's a quick read and the execution is done pretty well.
The art is cool, but especially in the beginning really messy. When exploring the castle I can't really tell what am I looking at and what is happening. The art gets better later on, so it's not much of an issue.
All in all, it really is what is being advertised - a cool looking comic with dark gods from before out time and their old worshippers. It's a quick read and the execution is done pretty well.
May 28, 2017
A phenomenal work of phantasmagoria from masters Corben & Strnad. Chilling to the unforgettably terrifying final page.
September 7, 2017
This was gross for the sake of gross. It was weird and more than a little confusing.
February 1, 2020
Absolutely insane story. It goes for more weirdness in page after page. If you think your brain can handle it, this is a gruesome ride worth taking.
September 12, 2021
I will truly miss my favorite artist.
June 6, 2022
Graphisme assez unique et bonne histoire
October 8, 2023
Lovecraft stuff.
March 10, 2025
Written in the spirit of an Arkham House book, and better than most of them.
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October 18, 2025Tenía una impresión espantosa este tomo.
February 2, 2017
I thought this was excellent. If you enjoy Lovecraft and Corben's artwork I think you'll enjoy this. It's a solid "post-Lovecraft" weird Horror kind of story with a Gothic slant, right up my alley. There was quite a few critical reviews on this site. I just took it at face value with no pre-concieved notions and enjoyed it thoroughly. I will say the ending felt a little rushed (but quite satisfactory) and the origins of Ragemoor could have been explored a bit more, but I suspect that was due to publisher constraints. Like: Hey Corben, make this fit in four issues.
So the other reviewers didn't like the art, story wasn't this or that, it should have this or that, whatever. Maybe you "experts" should write your own graphic novel and show the experts how it's done. (SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT) The story is hardly cliche, it's about a castle that is a living entity. I can't recall running into that particular plot right off the top of my head. It's slightly reminiscent of HPL's The Rats In The Walls but hardly a ripoff or retelling of it. Maybe the other reviewers have read too much Manga and don't understand anything without characters with huge eyes, tiny noses and fairy wings, lol.
So the other reviewers didn't like the art, story wasn't this or that, it should have this or that, whatever. Maybe you "experts" should write your own graphic novel and show the experts how it's done. (SLIGHT SPOILER ALERT) The story is hardly cliche, it's about a castle that is a living entity. I can't recall running into that particular plot right off the top of my head. It's slightly reminiscent of HPL's The Rats In The Walls but hardly a ripoff or retelling of it. Maybe the other reviewers have read too much Manga and don't understand anything without characters with huge eyes, tiny noses and fairy wings, lol.
January 5, 2013
Reason for Reading: I love horror stories and appreciate Corben's artwork. I also liked that this was a complete mini-series all-in-one.
This is an incredibly bizarre horror story which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I also loved Corben's artwork which is equally freaky. The story is just plain fun if you are in to the weird and creepy. This is one of those horror stories where the house is the actual main character. The house, for some inexplicable reason, is for want of a better word, alive. The two who live in the house are prisoners and those who visit become victims. Very strange and as I've said I found it all very fun. Only problem is that stripping the tale of the unique insect kitchen help, baboon guardians, raving lunatic naked father and attacking worm men; what is left is the usual predictable plot in these "living house" stories. Even the shock-value ending was not unexpected. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant read.
This is an incredibly bizarre horror story which I thoroughly enjoyed reading. I also loved Corben's artwork which is equally freaky. The story is just plain fun if you are in to the weird and creepy. This is one of those horror stories where the house is the actual main character. The house, for some inexplicable reason, is for want of a better word, alive. The two who live in the house are prisoners and those who visit become victims. Very strange and as I've said I found it all very fun. Only problem is that stripping the tale of the unique insect kitchen help, baboon guardians, raving lunatic naked father and attacking worm men; what is left is the usual predictable plot in these "living house" stories. Even the shock-value ending was not unexpected. Nevertheless, it was a pleasant read.
June 3, 2013
Hoy toca una de fuerzas innombrables, malignas y primigenias pero opuestas y enfrentadas. Terrores cósmicos mas viejos que el tiempo y ante ellos un castillo erigido sobre sangre, alimentado con sangre y que alberga consciencia y maldad en sus cambiantes paredes a costa de la cordura de sus moradores. Este castillo es Ragemoor y exige devoción y cuidado por parte de sus dueños, pues contravenir los deseos del castillo puede llevarte, si tienes suerte, a la muerte. Si no eres tan afortunado, a destinos mucho peores.
Este tomo recopila las 4 grapas que componen la historia. 112 Paginas en blanco y negro con el estilo de Richard Corben, para una historia que a pesar de ser disfrutable, te deja con ganas de mas. Y no por saber que ocurre después, sino mas bien con ganas de profundizar en la historia del castillo y su relación con los seres de los oscuros abismos. Se me ha hecho muy corto para el precio que tiene.
Este tomo recopila las 4 grapas que componen la historia. 112 Paginas en blanco y negro con el estilo de Richard Corben, para una historia que a pesar de ser disfrutable, te deja con ganas de mas. Y no por saber que ocurre después, sino mas bien con ganas de profundizar en la historia del castillo y su relación con los seres de los oscuros abismos. Se me ha hecho muy corto para el precio que tiene.
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