Salem Brownstone: All Along the Watchtowers

'A wonderfully imaginative and stylish piece of work and a perfect example of the adventurous new directions that comic books should be taking in the future.'

'John Dunning and Nikhil Singh have crafted a haunting, hypnotising master of the mystic arts in Salem Brownstone. Their sharp, surprising storytelling and intense, imaginative illustration combine to create real magic on the page.'

'Salem Brownstone is a hypnotically beautiful gothic fantasy'

'Salem Brownstone kicked my ass and made me believe in the beautiful darkness of the world again.'

'Salem Brownstone is a graphic novel that is both original and compelling. There's a seamless relationship between the images and the text, and the characters linger in the mind.'

'Our new century demands a new charismatic comic-book magician to weave his spells on us. Updating classic conjurors like Mandrake and Doctor Strange with a twist of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, John Dunning and Nikhil Singh have crafted a haunting, hypnotising master of the mystic arts in Salem Brownstone. Their sharp, surprising storytelling and intense, imaginative illustration combine to create real magic on the page.'

'So thrilling are Salem's adventures, you are torn between galloping through the fluidly told story and lingering on Singh's lovingly languid panels writhing with bizarre, Lovecraft-inspired demons… Rarely has a comic book felt so sensual; your eyes demand time to caress each swirling curl and line…. I for one wish for another Salem Brownstone book' The Metro

'An extraordinary-looking Gothic graphic novel, with a plot to match' The Sunday Express

'Delightfully intricate, trippy and surreal' The Financial Times

'A beautiful-looking graphic novel... The artwork is gorgeous; intricate and stylised, with flowing Art Nouveau lines reminiscent of Aubrey Beardsley and Alphonse Mucha' SFX Magazine

'A stylish and cult-forming graphic novel which blends gothic with psychedelia in a gripping tale' The Bookseller

'Deliciously strange and wonderful' Forbidden Planet

'An extraordinary, sexy, obsessive, decadent thing of wonder' The New Statesman

'Inside you will find beautifully defined graphic images that marry up with the text extraordinarily well… If this is the future of graphic novels then we are headed towards exciting times indeed.' Devolution Magazine

'A tactile and visual joy; an artefact that makes you happy just to hold it in your hands.'' The Guardian Review

'If it doesn’t become an instant cult classic then the goths of this world are losing their usually impeccable taste.' The Sunday Herald

'Eye-catchingly beautiful book' School Librarian Journal

'Who would have thought that a children’s book publisher like Walker would get behind such a creepy, quirky, freaky tale of a teen-magician..' Paul Gravett

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