Although Hungary cannot show off such a long tradition in the world of comics as US can, there is an author with a very good book that would fit perfectly in a Tim Burton scene.
The book is called Lencsilány. As a critic says "it is a peculiar vicious world. The solitude and the dark silence is more threatening than wicked mohawks and evil monsters." The story has references to Edgar Allan Poe and is in line with Géza Csáth's world view.
For me it is also similar to Neil Gaiman's Coraline. Did you see the movie? Actually it was just scary. Just imagine buttons in the place of your eyes. And a giant spider trying to eat you. And you are not like Frodo, not saved every time. When the spider comes, we feel real chances that she gets Caroline. Does she go back to her at-first-far-too-kind parents. No, the girl said: Nevermore.
I think she would be a perfect partner for the Pumpkin King.
Of course in such a context, love also has different meaning. The little Gillygirl (an english equivalent for Lencsilány) says things like this: I am too tired. Let me die.
The story ends with the black silence absorbs that scary world. So Gillygirl is awaiting ... to be a film star.
Some pages of the Lencsilány can be read here. It is english, don't worry. and have FUN:
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