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# Beautiful Darkness

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desertcart.com: Beautiful Darkness: 9781770463363: Vehlmann, Fabien, Kerascoët, Kerascoët, Fabien Vehlmann &, Dascher, Helge: Books

Review: “Lord of the Flies” starring a young girl's imaginary fairy friends. - Beautiful Darkness begins with a bunch of adorable fairy-like creatures crawling out of the corpse of a young girl, which is lying on a forest floor. We don’t know what happened to the girl – murder? Freak accident? Heart attack? – but it doesn’t matter, because the girl’s corpse is just part the setting; the story belongs to the fairies, who are woefully unprepared for surviving in the material world. Most of the little fairies don’t seem to have much personality or emotional depth, to the point that they seem indifferent to each other’s deaths (and those deaths happen frequently). In most books that would be a flaw, but in Beautiful Darkness it seems intentional. My interpretation – and this is only my interpretation, the book would easily support other readings – the fairies are the characters from the stories the dead girl made up to tell herself, somehow able to escape into the real world upon the girl’s death. A few of the characters were major protagonists or villains, and those characters have more personality; in particular, the main character, Aurora, goes through amazing development and changes as the story goes on. Most of the other fairies were just simple background characters, and act like it. beautiful_pg28(About that name, “Aurora”: Early in the book, we see that the dead girl had a notebook with “Aurora” handwritten on the cover; I interpret this as meaning that this was the book the girl wrote stories about Aurora in, but I’ve seen other people suggest that the girl’s name was Aurora, and that the fairy Aurora is named that because represents the girls idealized self-image. Another possibility is that Aurora the fairy just named herself after the notebook.) This book is brutal, ambiguous, incredibly original, and stuck with me a long time after reading it. The artwork is excellent; Kerascoet (a pen name for a married pair of cartoonists, Marie Pommepuy and Sebastien Cosset) switches between a loose, airy cartoon style for the fairy-like creatures and impressive fully-painted realism for the big humans. (I’d find that sort of fully-painted realism heavy-handed and oppressive for a full comic, but here – used in brief passages interspersed throughout the book – it’s very effective at making the humans seem alien and often a bit threatening, and also quite beautiful to look at).
Review: Trigger warning: death and decay of a little girl - Lord of the flies x alice in wonder land. Terrifying and beautiful. Will haunt. Trigger warning: death of a child and decay of her body. The hand on the cover is NOT a garden statue

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| Best Sellers Rank | #115,952 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #16 in Drawn & Quarterly Comic & Graphic Novels #117 in Literary Graphic Novels (Books) #178 in Teen & Young Adult Science Fiction & Fantasy Comics |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (683) |
| Dimensions  | 6.65 x 0.35 x 8.75 inches |
| ISBN-10  | 1770463364 |
| ISBN-13  | 978-1770463363 |
| Item Weight  | 2.31 pounds |
| Language  | English |
| Print length  | 112 pages |
| Publication date  | October 30, 2018 |
| Publisher  | Drawn and Quarterly |
| Reading age  | 14 years and up |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ “Lord of the Flies” starring a young girl's imaginary fairy friends.
*by B***H on February 7, 2016*

Beautiful Darkness begins with a bunch of adorable fairy-like creatures crawling out of the corpse of a young girl, which is lying on a forest floor. We don’t know what happened to the girl – murder? Freak accident? Heart attack? – but it doesn’t matter, because the girl’s corpse is just part the setting; the story belongs to the fairies, who are woefully unprepared for surviving in the material world. Most of the little fairies don’t seem to have much personality or emotional depth, to the point that they seem indifferent to each other’s deaths (and those deaths happen frequently). In most books that would be a flaw, but in Beautiful Darkness it seems intentional. My interpretation – and this is only my interpretation, the book would easily support other readings – the fairies are the characters from the stories the dead girl made up to tell herself, somehow able to escape into the real world upon the girl’s death. A few of the characters were major protagonists or villains, and those characters have more personality; in particular, the main character, Aurora, goes through amazing development and changes as the story goes on. Most of the other fairies were just simple background characters, and act like it. beautiful_pg28(About that name, “Aurora”: Early in the book, we see that the dead girl had a notebook with “Aurora” handwritten on the cover; I interpret this as meaning that this was the book the girl wrote stories about Aurora in, but I’ve seen other people suggest that the girl’s name was Aurora, and that the fairy Aurora is named that because represents the girls idealized self-image. Another possibility is that Aurora the fairy just named herself after the notebook.) This book is brutal, ambiguous, incredibly original, and stuck with me a long time after reading it. The artwork is excellent; Kerascoet (a pen name for a married pair of cartoonists, Marie Pommepuy and Sebastien Cosset) switches between a loose, airy cartoon style for the fairy-like creatures and impressive fully-painted realism for the big humans. (I’d find that sort of fully-painted realism heavy-handed and oppressive for a full comic, but here – used in brief passages interspersed throughout the book – it’s very effective at making the humans seem alien and often a bit threatening, and also quite beautiful to look at).

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Trigger warning: death and decay of a little girl
*by S***S on November 27, 2025*

Lord of the flies x alice in wonder land. Terrifying and beautiful. Will haunt. Trigger warning: death of a child and decay of her body. The hand on the cover is NOT a garden statue

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Beutiful book, but odd packaging
*by S***Y on October 16, 2025*

The artwork is fantastic, and the designs are very well thought out. I was happy to have been able to buy it for my bookcase! In my purchase, I bought some geodes too, and they packed the two together. It scuffed the books corners ever so slightly, as it was lying loose in the box with the packed geodes. I bought something lighter too, so it's odd how they didn't pack those two things together, or sent it by itself. I'm just happy it didn't ruin the book more, but I suppose people should be aware of the possibility!

## Frequently Bought Together

- Beautiful Darkness
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