Ligeia
When Poe Meets Schopenhauer. A story of will, desire, and solipsism
60 plates · Gothic Manga style · English
Everything that exists is inside his mind. Roderick and Rowena are dreams within his dream. The real question is not whether Ligeia can return—but whether she might finally choose not to
Pages
60
Format
A4 hardcover
Language
English
Status
in progress
(temporary cover)
The Core Plot
Ligeia is dead, but her will is too strong to accept death. Thanks to a force that defies all natural laws, she bends space-time and finds herself suspended in a tesseract—an impossible dimension where past, present, and future coexist as crystallized frames.
From there, she watches Roderick, who yields to family pressure and marries Lady Rowena. And from there, she begins to manipulate reality. But what she does not know—what she will only discover at the end—is that Roderick, Rowena, their struggle, their love: everything is a projection of her will.
“How can I choose not to desire? How can I want not to want? It’s a paradox. It’s… the only way out.”
The Characters
Ligeia
Main Character
A self-taught philosopher obsessed with Schopenhauer and Nietzsche. Her will is so intense that it bends space-time even after death. She is not a ghost: she is a mind that creates and destroys realities. Her struggle is not against death—it is against herself.
Roderick
The husband
A fragile intellectual, consumed by grief. He loves Ligeia with a sickening intensity. He marries Rowena under family pressure, but continues to call her by the wrong name. He believes he is fighting the ghost of Ligeia—unaware that he is a character within his own dream..
Rowena
The new wife
It could be real, or it could be a projection created by Ligeia herself—the woman Roderick longed for, fragile and in need of salvation. Her will to survive, however, is surprisingly real.
Visual Style
“A gothic, manga‑inspired graphic novel with cinematic paneling, monochrome palettes accented by spectral light, and a tesseract-like library of floating frames that blend horror, romance, and metaphysics.”
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