A shop in Victoria sent me down a horror comics rabbit hole
This is my first Reddit post, and I thought I’d start with an unexpected highlight of my time on Canada’s West Coast: discovering Cavity in Victoria, on Vancouver Island.
Looking back, that shop — and everything it led me to explore — is one of the things I’ll remember most about the trip.
Cavity (located beyond Chinatown) and its discoveries of Saint Sinner and (re)discoveries of Heavy Metal, became the starting point for searches that took me through Hellraiser, Eerie, Doctor Leviathan, and Nightbreed. One discovery led to another, and I kept finding reasons to dig further.
I’ve long been drawn to horror, especially the point where something disturbing becomes strangely beautiful. Finding that in illustrated form — the textures, the transformed bodies, the care put into a single image — has been a particularly rewarding part of this journey. Some pages make me stop and look at them as paintings before I even read the dialogue.
So that’s what I’m bringing back from the Canadian West Coast: a growing reading list and a fascination that keeps opening new doors.
Has anyone else here visited Cavity? Based on these titles, what would you suggest I explore next?