Books like The Iron Tonic: Or, A Winter Afternoon in Lonely Valley

This melon collic story is about an old home where all the people are old or unwell. It goes on painting all the dreary and hopeless things around these people. Ponds full of eels beneath ice and people trapped in the snow. There is a panel about a dead orphan who escaped the wraith and that dark humor got a chuckle out of me somehow. I don’t know how he did that. I think when everything is so hopeless and horrible and over-the-top, that the humor comes out of how absurd it all is. Lovely artwork again with this story. I feel like this was a great story. I have come to expect someone dying at the end and that is not the case here. It is about how hopeless it all is. Edward is correct, we will all die somehow.