The forest isn’t just alive -it’s watching. The couple must find a way to escape before they become lost forever in a world that defies logic and reason.
Book Synopsis:
Norm Konyu delivers a supernatural and psychological thriller graphic novel, set in an eerie and extraordinary forest where Meera and Mark, an ordinary couple, find themselves lost during their journey to find a new home.
After an accident within the forest, the house hunters become the hunted. They must navigate a labyrinth of time and space, surroundedby towering trees with unusual qualities. As they wander deeper into the wilderness, they discover dark secrets and ancient powers that manipulate their every move.
The forest isn’t just alive -it’s watching. The couple must find a way to escape before they become lost forever in a world that defies logic and reason.
Norm Konyu, the award-winning creator of A Call To Cthulhu (2024 Aurora Award for Best Graphic Novel), The Junction, and Downlands, brings his signature style and talent to this uncanny andunforgettable tale. His mastery of animation and graphic storytelling infuses the pages with haunting visuals and a palpable sense of dread.
Blending elements of supernatural horror with psychological tension, readers are drawn into the twisted reality between the trees, where time is fluid, fear is constant, and every turn is a new nightmare. This is a journey where nothing is ever what it seems.
Where and When to Buy:
The Space Between the Trees
Author/Illustrator: Norm Konyu
Publisher: Titan Comics
HC, 104 pages, FC, $19.99
ISBN: 9781787746800
On sale October 21, 2025
Downlands is on sale May 13, 2025 at bookstores, comic shops and digital.
Pre-order now from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books A Million and Forbidden Planet for UK.
The Art:
MY REVIEW
I think that I could spend my life doing just a handful of book blog tours and be extremely happy if I got to do more for Norm Konyu. This was another *gorgeous* book much as ‘Downlands’ was and just as unique. This time we may stick with folklore but we’ve added psychological horror too and shifted to Canada and the forests, that are slowly being cleared to make way for people, in the form of cookie cutter homes.
Meera and Mark leave the cookie cutter townhomes behind as they lament about the disappearing forests and Mark is telling Meera about his childhood. While telling her about his Aunt Louise and her odd terror of the trees (or the bears in them as the family said) they find themselves thrown into the beginning of their own tale.
Stuck in the forest with no means to contact anyone and no way to find the road again, they’re forced to wander through the forest in hopes of finding a way out.
So why do they keep returning to the same tree?
I loved this. Hands down, yet again, Konyu does so much with the artwork, the colors and style blow me away and the story is genuinely just creepy enough that I feel I’ll be looking out for any old growth trees with evidence of a cut.
Meera and Mark go many places without leaving the forest and without ever knowing if they’ll be okay or together. And that truly builds up the tension for me as a reader.
I do wish this had been longer like Downlands had been because I really wanted more but I get why this wasn’t. This was really like one of those episodes of ‘Are You Afraid of the Dark’ in that it unsettles you and leaves you with just enough to want more; but definitely made each minute/page worth your while.
This was 4/5 Huge cups of coffee for me, I’ll be recommending this one for sure again on the blog for sure and putting it with Downlands on creepy read lists. You can see the physical copy on my Instagram, a huge thanks to Titan Comics for sending me a copy to use for my tour day and show off! Look just down below to see the art for this and check out my Insta to see my post and where to find everyone else’s! I can’t wait to see what Konyu gives us next.
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