Le Club des prédateurs #1

The cover of this 2016 Casterman album sets an immediately unsettling tone: a figure in formal Victorian attire — its head that of a snarling wolf — escorts a composed young woman in a green gown through the grand foyer of what appears to be a prestigious gentlemen's club, marble busts and ancestral portraits looming in the background. The juxtaposition of high-society elegance with something deeply predatory is striking and precise, exactly the kind of image that makes you want to know what happens beyond that staircase. By Mangin and Dupré, Le Club des Prédateurs Vol. 1 — subtitled The Boogeyman — opens what promises to be a darkly atmospheric series where the monsters wear dinner jackets.