The art in here is gorgeous. Very muted in tone, but that's appropriate for the story, which is fairly muted itself if you don't count all the gore. Three kids and their mum move to a relative's house following the murder of the father of the family, and the strength of the story here lies in just how much it shows the trauma of the murder on those left behind. Each member of the family is trying to hold themselves together in a different way, trying to make themselves seem normal, and as if they're coping, so not as to further upset the others. It's genuinely sad... except sadness is only the half of it, as these poor people have clearly never cracked a book in their lives, moving to a place called Lovecraft and into a house that practically screams "bad things are going to happen here, I might as well be called Hill House." You just have to look at it to know it's full of dodgy supernatural danger, and of course it is - the doors in the house, when opened with the right key, do strange and impossible things... and there's something living in the well-house, in the bottom of the well in the well-house who is manipulating murder behind the scenes. It's affecting and creepy and I want to read the rest in the series, except I can't because the library has closed due to the bloody corona virus.

Damn pandemic.