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Another excellent graphic adaptation from Dark Horse Comics of a Neil Gaiman tale, this time adapting "The Price" and "The Daughter of Owls", both originally published in Smoke and Mirrors, with both stories illustrated and adapted by Michael Zulli.


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Creatures Of The Night Neil Gaiman Michael Zulli 9781569719367 Books Reviews

This is just A place to start with Gaiman, not THE place. You'd be better served by skipping straight to the landmark works like Sandman or American Gods, which are milestones in SFF and much better than these two stories. This is more like a stocking stuffer for a completionist.
The art is OK. You can tell it's done with a practiced hand but the shapes are too loose for my taste and I didn't like the color palette, it looked really clashy on some pages. If you want to look at comics done in oils, Dan Brereton is way better.

***SPOILERS***
I thought the choice of stories could have been wiser. The she-Devil in The Price and the Innocent Girl in Daughter of Owls juxtaposed against each other basically makes this a book about a she-Devil who keeps getting whupped by a housecat and a human girl who needs to be avenged by some barn owls. It's unintentionally funny like, get it together, ladies! LOL
Creatures of the Night collects two short stories - The Price and The Daughter of Owls. The artwork in this graphic novel is certainly the highlight - it is detailed, and the coloring is more elaborate than the flat color scheme we are used to. But it is also a very short book - 50 pages with both stories, so I think it was easier to go into so much detail when it came to artwork.

The Price is the story about a man who adopts stray cats left near his house. One such cat, the Black Cat seems to be always hurt or wounded in some way. Day after day, the cat seems worse in the morning. But when the cat is kept inside and not allowed to go out, terrible things happen to the people of the house. When the man tries to find out where the cat goes at night, he learns how thankful he needs to be to the cat. It is heartbreaking, the story, and something that subverts the superstition around black cats; I loved it for that part.

The next, The Daughter of Owls was probably too simplistic in storyline to really grab my attention. An orphan girl, with an owl pellet in her hand, is ostracized by the members of her village and is placed in the care of a retired nun. Later on, she grows to be an inhumanly beautiful girl who is in danger because of her beauty. The story was too linear and lacked the twist like The Price, which is why I was not so invested in it.

Overall, it is a beautiful bit of artwork to see, as well as a quick read.
Rated 3.5

This brief graphic novel, written by one of the world's premier fantasy authors, Neil Gaiman, features two short stories "The Price" and "The Daughter of Owls."

Michael Zulli's illustrations really enhance these already powerful stories. The art here does what art should do in a graphic novel ... it helps tell the story. I noted that Gaiman rewrote the works to fit the graphic novel format. I haven't read the works prior to this, so I don't know what changes were made, but I suspect it had a lot to do with allowing the images tell some of the story.

"The Price" was easily my favorite of the two stories here. Gaiman keeps the reader in much suspense, slowly revealing the 'truth' of the story which is both heart-warming and frightening at the same time. It is Gaiman's skill to give us these contradicting emotions that really makes me appreciate him.

Though extremely brief, I struggled with "The Daughter of Owls." The story is interesting (it's Neil Gaiman - of course the story is interesting!) but the decision to have the lettering in a flowing, artistic script is strange. I understand the motivation for it, and how, artistically, it fits within the story, but it made it very difficult for this reader. It slowed me down. It took me out of the flow of the story in order to read the story.

(See the review on my website for an example of this lettering.)

At least on my computer I could enlarge the page a number of times so that I could read the words, but that made it more difficult to scroll through the book.

The art was also not as up to par in this story as it was with the first story. This art felt more like colored sketches than a stylized, finished work.

If this were only the last story, with this art and lettering, I'd struggle to recommend the book even though it's a Neil Gaiman story. But with the powerful story "The Price" leading this off, this is easily a book to recommend.

Looking for a good book? <em>Creatures of the Night</em> is a graphic novel with two stories by Neil Gaiman and art by Michael Zulli. If you have a collection of Gaiman books, you will definitely want to include this book. If you do not have a collection of Neil Gaiman books, you should start one and do so with this book.

I received a digital copy of this book from the publisher, through Edelweiss, in exchange for an honest review.
I bought this for my Girlfriend who is a huge Neil Gaiman fan and she loves it, great story and the book arrived quickly and in excellent condition. All in all, I am pleased with this purchase and would buy from here again.
To be honest the stories inside this book are a nice reading, also the illustrations are pretty good too.

But they aren't as good as other Gaiman's works.

They are nice REALLY light reading, but don't expect a novel-like book.
A nice, quick adaption of gasman' work. I enjoyed it quite a bit but would like to have a few more stories.
I’ve heard these stories before on various audiobook collections of Neil Gaiman short stories, but reading them with the illustrations makes them even creepier than before. Totally worth buying again in another format.
Another excellent graphic adaptation from Dark Horse Comics of a Neil Gaiman tale, this time adapting "The Price" and "The Daughter of Owls", both originally published in Smoke and Mirrors, with both stories illustrated and adapted by Michael Zulli.