How many Silent Hill books are there?

[chackan]

Since they don't get published here in Portugal I find it hard to keep track on how many books already out there.

Could someone please make a list of books available?

Thankiu

[Kiryū Kazuma]

which ones dude as in guides, novels or we talking in general? i can prob link you on fb to a few

[chackan]

Amazing how facebook is the best way to communicate these days x| What a horrible thing to say lol

I mean books like Sinner's Reward, Dead/Alive, and the ones included in the SH Experience for the PSP.

[Cenobite, that cute pariah]

Oh, the comics?

I believe there was one released in Japan, but I don't know much about it.

As for the comics put out by IDW, there are a bunch. I assume you'd like to read them for yourself, so I'll refrain from plot summaries.

To begin, there are the ones written by Scott Ciencin.

His first is the 5-issue mini series Dying Inside.

This was followed by three one-shots. Among the Damned, Paint it Black, and The Grinning Man.

After those came the 5-issue mini Dead/Alive, which brought together characters from all of Ciencin's previous stories.

The PSP title you mentioned contains an adaptation of Dying Inside, as well as a new story called Hunger.

Hunger can only be found on The Silent Hill Experience UMD, but Ciencin's other stories have been collected into an omnibus called, appropriately enough, Silent Hill Omnibus.

Personally, I feel that Ciencin's stuff is not very good. Dying Inside was alright, and Among the Damned was decent. Paint it Black was absolutely terrible, which is a shame, since its base premise was pretty good. Overall, you're not missing much if you skip Ciencin's stuff. Save your money.

Moving onto the more recent comics, written by Tom Waltz, there have been two mini series, each 4 issues.

The first was Sinner's Reward. I've exchanged emails many times with the editor in chief of IDW about Silent Hill and other titles, and Sinner's Reward was proof to me that he listened to my concerns. In short, Tom Waltz gets it. Sinner's Reward is great, and well worth reading. Its available in a trade paperback collection.

Tom's other mini is the just completed Past Life. This one was a bit different, being set in Silent Hill's past, but is also quite good. Its also supposed to tie into Silent Hill: Downpour, and I've read that Waltz is helping write the story for the game, so I'm expecting good things. Amazon.com has a listing for the Past Life collected edition, saying that it will be released in North America in early May.




TL:DR, if you really want to own everything, and don't care about getting the individual issues/variant covers/etc, you'll need The Silent Hill Experience on the PSP, and the books Silent Hill Omnibus, Silent Hill: Sinner's Reward, and Silent Hill: Past Life. The first two are already out, and the latter should be released around May.

[chackan]

Ok, so I only need to wait for Sinner's Reward to come out in Amazon.co.uk

I think I have all of the rest, including the ones in the PSP Experience UMD and the ones in Omnibus (Dead/Alive, 3 Bloody Tales, Dying Inside which is the one in the PSP UMD I think).

Thanks guys! I thought I was missing a lot of them lol