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What to read this weekend: Engrossing literary horror and a dark, whimsical new comic series

This week's must-read new titles are Old Soul by Susan Barker and The Seasons, a new series for Image Comics.

It was like I blinked and was suddenly 100 pages in, and just had to keep going to find out what would come next.Early on, strangers Jake and Mariko miss a flight and end up drunkenly talking about their lives, leading to the realization that they each lost a loved one under what seem to be the same tragic and (extremely specific) bizarre circumstances. Jake becomes determined to learn more, and tracks down other people whose lives were affected by this woman, who herself doesn’t seem subject to the same rules of time and mortality as the rest of us. Old Soul is told through several different perspectives, with a series of testimonies about strange events of the past placed in parallel to a narrative following two women who set out on a hike into New Mexico’s Bisti Badlands for a photo/video shoot.

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