One of the best deals you can do if you like comics is Desert Island's Mystery Mail subscription. They send a grab bag of a bunch of shit, I have been doing it since the pandemic and have been reaping in the rewards. This month's package came with Poem Strip by Dino Buzzati, translated from Italian to English by Marina Harss. A psuedo retelling of the myth of Orpheus, it follows a young singer going into the afterlife to rescue his love from death. But really the story is a thin veneer for talkin' about Death, as you do, oftentimes through the abstract imagery of song. I found this immensely good, like if David Lynch decided to draw a Fellini film.
I am fascinated by the haunted house as a location and a storytelling device. One of my creative fantasies is adapting David Mitchell's Slade House into a film. It's such a rich metaphor, a physical location becoming it's own localized hell. (Clearly Skinamarink is still on my mind.) So I really enjoyed how Poem Strip drew from that well too. It's very evocative, and makes for a very melancholy afterlife as opposed to a scary one.
Anyway shout out to Poem Strip for having a scene where a train is a central metaphor for moving on from the afterlife as the human mind can conceive it into a new more abstract version of unknown, one we can only imagine in the recesses of our minds. If you are in the same pantheon as Defending Your Life and Spirited Away you are doing something right!