Emily's strange and sullen subculture of one continues to win the rebellious hearts and minds of millions of fans the world around. Now 13 years old, our defiant heroine has a major motion picture in the works, a quarterly comic book, and has made her mark on strange and best-selling merchandise from candy to couture, guitars to lip gloss. Despite her decidedly antisocial tendencies, Emily is more popular than ever. Her books and gift titles have collectively sold over half a million copies, and she is published in 5 languages. In this, her 4th book, Emily the Strange Seeing Is Deceiving, Emily challenges her dark devotees to see things her way. The same engaging format features fantastic production quality with ghostly spot varnish tricks plus eye-popping die-cuts. A brand new gift line will publish simultaneously, including some amazing new materials, such as vinyl and stitching. Fans, new and old, won't believe their eyes when they get a closer look at Emily's optical delusions.

Emily shows how she sees the world and how deceptive sight can be, in this book of illusions and surprises.

Emily journeys through nightmares which are filled with horrifying creatures and events.

The arts.

Tells the story, visionary by visionary and discovery by discovery, of the telescope, one of the few inventions that have revolutionized our view of the universe and how we fit into it.

Whoever it was that told you not to talk to strangers needs to have a talk with Emily . . . Emily the Strange, that is. Emily knows that nothing is better than talking with strangers. In fact, the stranger the better! But that's Emily for youshe's the thirteenyearold queen of the cultural underground, and she's too busy making up her own rules to follow anyone else's. That's how we've come up with so many insanely inspired ideas for the stories you'll find in Dark Horse's Emily the Strange Volume 2. This big, bizarre book collects the five most recent issues of Dark Horse's bestselling Emily the Strange comics, so you won't miss a single strange moment from the Rock issue, the Death issue, the Fake issue, the Revenge issue, or the Alone issue! We've all got issues, man. Isn't it time you dealt with at least these five? * Includes strange celebrity interviews with rocker Marilyn Manson, Gerard Way, and more! * Collects the Rock Issue #4, The Death Issue #1, The Fake Issue #2, The Revenge Issue #3, and the Alone Issue #4.

Emily the Strange is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl--she's got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of moody black cats, and famous friends in very odd places! She's got a broodingly unique way of experiencing the world, and you're invited along for the ride. Legions of fans worldwide have joined forces to make Emily a pop-culture phenomenon.

Emily the Strange is not your ordinary thirteen-year-old girl — she’s got a razor-sharp wit as dark as her jet-black hair, a posse of moody black cats and famous friends in very odd places! She’s got a broodingly unique way of experiencing the world, and you’re invited along for the ride. Legions of fans worldwide have joined forces to make Emily a pop-culture phenomenon.

Gothic effigy brings together for the first time the multifarious visual motifs and media associated with Gothic, many of which have never received serious study before. This guide is the most comprehensive work in its field, a study aid that draws links between a considerable array of Gothic visual works and artifacts, from the work of Salvator Rosa and the first illustrations of Gothic Blue Books to the latest Gothic painters and graphic artists. Currently popular areas such as Gothic fashion, gaming, T.V. and film are considered, as well as the ghostly images of magic lantern shows. This groundbreaking study will serve as an invaluable reference and research book. In its wide range and closely detailed descriptions, it will be very attractive for students, academics, collectors, fans of popular Gothic culture and general readers.