A review by noysh
Alabaster: Pale Horse by Daniel Chabon, Caitlín R. Kiernan

5.0

I actually picked this one up because I enjoyed Alabaster: Wolves and Alabaster: Grimmer Tales so much that I was desperate to read more about Dancy. So I picked up Kiernan's prose short-story collection with low expectations. I was blown away. The atmosphere and the voice that I loved about the comics was present in these stories and I got exactly what I hoped for from this. I'm now actually considering picking up more of Kiernan's work. Naifeh's illustrations capture the same spirit as Lieber and the modern take on southern gothic with a supernatural twist is still there. The texts themselves are layered and lend themselves to multiple types of reading. This is the most fun I've had with a prose work in a long time.