A chilling collection of wordless horror shorts from the master of scratchboard. Greetings from Hellville consists of four short stories, all told without words, crafted with Ott's trademark black-and-white scratchboard style. Ott creates modern horror comics that have been described as the postmodern successor to EC's infamous line from the 1950s. The final story, "Goodbye!" relates a man's multiple suicide attempts. After each new method the man finds himself miraculously alive, until he pulls his curtains aside and is finally killed by the looming mushroom cloud hovering over the city. "Goodbye!" is a perfect example of Greetings from Hellville's bleak and suspenseful mood. Despite a large European following for years, especially in France and Germany, and acclaimed short stories published in American anthologies, this book is Ott's first American book. His meticulous scratchboard style is masterful, provoking awe and admiration in the face of the repeated horrors portrayed, and is sure to establish him as one of the preeminent horror cartoonists being published today.

Greetings from Hellville

OTT, Thomas

Fantagraphics

DEAD END

Collects two wordless stories with twist endings, including a mysterious suitcase which brings about a cycle of death, and an assassin's consequence for trailing a magician.

Dead End

Comics & Graphic Novels

Graphic Novels

Fantagraphics Books

Europe's master of modern wordless horror returns with his third book. With T. Ott's Tales of Error, Ott directs a nod toward the classic horror formulas of EC Comics (Tales from the Crypt, Shock SuspenStories, Weird Science) and Rod Serling's Twilight Zone, with a decidedly contemporary spin. This collection contains six beautifully rendered and horrific stories. "Honeymoon," the opening story, depicts the love and happiness of Doris and Dave, to the shock of their friends. A final postcard of the couple's honeymoon reveals the happy duo to be literally joined at the hip: as Siamese twins. E.C. purists will surely appreciate Ott's skillful manipulation of images and text, seemingly directing readers in one narrative direction before leading to an unexpected but credible ending worthy of O. Henry. From the classic war story to unraveled romance, Ott puts his personal twist on several classic genres. Adding to his large European audience, particularly in France and Germany, Ott continues to build an American audience. His meticulous scratchboard style is unparalleled in its craftsmanship, provoking awe and admiration in the face of the repeated horrors portrayed; Ott is unequivocally one of the preeminent horror cartoonists being published today. 48 pages b/w illustrations.

T. Ott's Tales of Error

Cinema Panopticum

by Thomas Ott T. Ott plunges into the darkness with five graphic horror novelettes, each in his hallucinatory, hyper-detailed scratchboard style. His pretzel-like plot twists will pulverize fans of classic horror and film noir, and his artwork will haunt readers until long after they've dropped dead!

Science Fiction & Fantasy

A horrific graphic novel, without words. Swiss horror master Thomas Ott returns with the first full-length graphic novel of his career. When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a prison guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the moment, he puts it into his pocket. As the guard lives a solitary, monotonous life, the numbers on the paper awake his curiosity. To find out their hidden meaning could add a new meaning to his life as well, so the guard stumbles into situations in which the number or part of it seem to achieve a certain importance and offer him hints and possible solutions. And the numbers signal a radical change in his luck. He gets to know a woman, falls in love with her, and one night, in a casino, he wins a huge amount of money when gambling on these numbers. But the next morning, the woman and money have disappeared. The man goes in search of the woman and the money. But from that day on, his luck changes and the numbers bring him only bad luck, sending him inexorably into an abyss that he might not recover from. Thomas Ott's O. Henry-esque plot twists will delight fans of classic horror like The Twilight Zone and Tales from the Crypt, or modern masters like filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan; his hallucinatory, hyper-detailed scratchboard illustrations will haunt you long after you've put the book down.

The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8

<ul><li>This omnibus collection of Thomas Ott’s short shock-ending horror stories collects material originally published in three (now out-of-print) thin European-style “graphic albums” during the 1980s and 1990s. Presented in the same deluxe format as the now sold-out Cinema Panopticum (for which a softcover release is planned for 2011) and The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8, R.I.P. offers up an even dozen tales of murder, suicide, oppression, terror, mutilation, crime, marital strife, and nuclear annihilation.</li></ul>

R.I.P: Best of 1985-2004

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<li>T. Ott plunges into the darkness with five wordless graphic horror novelettes: “The Prophet,” “The Wonder Pill,” “La Lucha,” “The Hotel,” and the title story, each executed in his hallucinatory and hyper-detailed scratchboard style. </li> <li>The first story in the book introduces the other four: A little girl visits an amusement park. She looks fascinated, but finds everything too expensive. Finally, behind the rollercoaster she eyeballs a small booth with "Cinema Panopticon" written on it. Inside there are boxes with screens. Every box contains a movie; the title of each appears on each screen. Each costs only a dime, so the price is right for the little girl. She puts her money in the first box: “The Prophet” begins. In the film, a vagrant foresees the end of the world and tries to warn people, but nobody believes him. They will soon enough.</li>
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Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

This creepy graphic novel, drawn on scratchboard, is about a man who finds a mysterious number that changes his life: now in softcover. Horror master Thomas Ott’s only full-length graphic novel is now available in paperback! When clearing up the cell of a prisoner who has been sentenced to death and subsequently executed, a guard finds a small piece of paper with a combination of numbers on it. On the spur of the moment, he puts it into his pocket. Living a solitary, monotonous life, the man finds his curiosity awakened by the numbers on the paper. They also signal radical changes in his luck... and fortunes. Until, that is, they don’t. The inexorable abyss that follows is quintessential Ott, modern master of the old fashioned plot twist. But more than the plot itself, Ott’s hallucinatory, hyper-detailed scratchboard visions will haunt you long after you’ve put the book down. Black & white.

A gorgeous, ghostly, and silent graphic novella from the modern scratchboard master.The Forest is a graphic novella told via twenty-five singular illustrations, without words, of which only Swiss artist Thomas Ott is capable. A young boy sneaks away from a family funeral and sinks into the forest depths, where he confronts man's greatest fear and must choose his path. Drawing with a technique called scratchboard, where a white surface is covered with a black layer and scratched away, Ott creates images out of negative space to harrowing effect. In Ott's hands, the medium becomes the perfect vessel for his eerie, horror-imbued morality tales. This gorgeous volume will be printed on heavy art paper with Pantone Black ink to best showcase every exquisite detail of Ott's virtuosic talent. Black-and-white illustrations throughout

The Forest

Dark Country

APOCALYPSE

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Greetings from Hellville

Dead End

T. Ott's Tales of Error

Cinema Panopticum

The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8

R.I.P: Best of 1985-2004

Cinema Panopticum

The Number 73304-23-4153-6-96-8

The Forest

Dark Country