Including a sketchbook with revealing artist commentary, this highly imaginative book features an assortment of compelling tales about a mythical warrior-woman, a patriotic super-hero and his teenage sidekick, an impulsive boy inventor, a crime-fighting detective, a vigilante heiress, a science super-hero and his powerful daughter, an enhanced ape, and a police force of super-heroes.

    Join princess Aurora and her friends as they journey to civilization's heart of darkness in a bleak allegory about surviving the human experience.  The sweet faces and bright leaves of Kerascoët’s delicate watercolors serve to highlight the evil that dwells beneath Vehlmann's story as pettiness, greed, and jealousy take over. Beautiful Darkness is a harrowing look behind the routine politeness and meaningless kindness of civilized society.