The Harrowing Game

"The rules of the game are simple: Three ghosts gather to tell their stories in turn. Scariest story wins. Only the winner may move on. thousands of years, the souls of the dead have gathered to play the game. Tonight, the storytellers locked in this existential battle are a recently deceased girl with no memories, an old woman trapped in a mirror, and a smirking boy in a bathtub. Their terrifying tales span time and space, from the temples of ancient Egypt to the taxidermy labs of modern New England. Yet the same primordial evil lurks in the margins of each story. This presence tempts the innocent as well as the corrupted, and its hunger is boundless."--Provided by publisher.

Publisher Marketing: Antoine Revoy is an award-winning French writer, artist, and designer raised in Tokyo, Japan, and Mexico City, Mexico. Revoy has created illustrations for clients such as the New York Times, Der Spiegel, and Harvard University and is the creator of the graphic novel Animus (2018), published by First Second. He teaches visual storytelling and comics-making courses at the Rhode Island School of Design and is a thesis mentor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Revoy lives in Providence, Rhode Island, with his wife, author-illustrator Kelly Murphy, and their many animal companions. Review Quotes : "The trio's unexpected results ensure the terror continues--perhaps signaling the possibility of future, welcome volumes." -- Booklist "[Revoy] excels at drawing grotesque horror but also renders people, animals, and insects with an exaggerated realism that makes his monsters all the more disturbing."-- Publishers Weekly "Revoy's style is his own, and he is a master of elevating the mundane into the realm of the darkly sublime." --The Beat "Exceptionally good art feeds into every story, Revoy adapting it to the needs of what's being told, with artistic influences including Junji Ito and Naoki Urasawa." --Slings & Arrows Publisher Marketing : For fans of Junji Ito comes The Harrowing Game , a deliciously creepy manga-inflected horror graphic novel for adult readers. The rules of the game are simple: Three ghosts gather to tell their stories in turn. Scariest story wins. Only the winner may move on. For thousands of years, the souls of the dead have gathered to play the game. Tonight, the storytellers locked in this existential battle are a recently deceased girl with no memories, an old woman trapped in a mirror, and a smirking boy in a bathtub. Their terrifying tales span time and space, from the temples of ancient Egypt to the taxidermy labs of modern New England. Yet the same primordial evil lurks in the margins of each story. This presence tempts the innocent as well as the corrupted, and its hunger is boundless. Drawn in exquisitely disturbing detail and full of twists you'd find in the finest horror manga, The Harrowing Game will leave you gasping. Review Citations: Publishers Weekly 05/05/2025 (EAN 9781250248329, Paperback) Booklist 05/01/2025 pg. 64 (EAN 9781250248329, Paperback) Booklist 05/01/2025 pg. 64 (EAN 9781250248312, Hardcover) Contributor Bio: Revoy, Antoine Antoine Revoy is an award-winning French writer, artist and designer, raised in Tokyo, Japan and Mexico City, Mexico. Revoy has created illustrations for clients such as The New York Times , Der Spiegel and Harvard University, and is the creator of graphic novels ANIMUS (2018) and The Harrowing Game (2025), published by First Second Books. He teaches visual storytelling and comics-making courses at the Rhode Island School of Design and is a thesis mentor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Revoy lives in Providence, RI, with his wife, author-illustrator Kelly Murphy, and their many animal companions.

Format: Paperback | Pages: 224 | Publication Date: 2025-05-27