H. H. Holmes #2

Set against the grand, hazy skyline of the 1893 World's Fair — the "White City" itself — this second volume from Daedalus pairs a brooding, wide-hatted man clutching a revolver with a pale-haired young woman in Victorian dress, her expression caught somewhere between trust and unease. Fabrice Le Hénanff's painterly artwork gives the whole composition an atmosphere of quiet menace wrapped in Gilded Age elegance. It's a beautifully rendered thriller that uses one of history's most unsettling figures as its backdrop.