Tales from the Border Mini Comics Digital Bundle (PDF)

The place where it all began - the original two Tales from the Border mini comics, published in 2019.

Tales from the Border #1

A new comics anthology series begins here! From cartoonist Andrew Sztehlo comes a first issue of 44 pages containing stories that evoke the folkloric past, dripping with atmosphere, menace, and terror, including:

• "Spellbound" - a short folk horror comics adaptation of the eponymous poem by Emily Brontë.
• "Jack on Fire" - a silent comic that evokes the work of woodcut graphic novels by the likes of Frans Masareel and Lynd Ward, telling the story of a US Army general in the Old West, who has gone mad with bloodlust.
• "The Stations of the Cross" - a new comic that is EXCLUSIVE to the print edition, set in the medieval past and following a wandering knight across a dark and sinister landscape.
• Short prose fiction and essays, with exclusive illustrations.

Tales from the Border #2

"We Are Here As On A Darkling Plain" adapts 4 poems by English writers living in the Nineteenth Century.

• Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold
• The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy
• The Eagle - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• A Lonely Moor - Charlotte Brontë
• A small volume to carry with you into the dark night.