She is chaperoning a client, Carlos, through a strange landscape recently and forcibly occupied by hellish beings to find his missing loved one. “The Maw” introduces us to Mix, a 17-year-old paid to navigate the ash-grey streets of ravaged Hollow City. In “Skullpocket”, young ghouls break the rules of their elders. And it’s told from the viewpoint of a somewhat unusual source who eventually learns to understand love, and this gives it a level of poignancy that stays with you. Occult material is interspersed with finger paintings from his daughter’s time at elementary school – such a lovely detail, something Ballingrud excels at throughout. A metaphysical pathologist’s young daughter finds her father dead, so ventures into his laboratory for the first time. “The Diabolist” is sparse and beautifully written.
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