Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Archaic | 2025 | Melissa F. Olson | Buy |
Melissa F. Olson has worked in comics alongside her prose fiction, and Archaic, published in 2025, is her graphic novel entry. Olson has spoken publicly about her interest in the comics medium as a way to tell stories that work differently from prose, where the visual element changes what is possible and what needs to be said in words.
Her background in film and literature (she studied both at the University of Southern California) is relevant here: the visual storytelling instincts she developed before turning to fiction translate naturally to comics work. Archaic is listed among the horror and speculative titles she published in 2025 alongside The Other Frankenstein, suggesting a year in which she was deliberately branching out from the Old World urban fantasy that made her reputation.