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Locke & Key - Written by Joe Hill the son of Steven King. Fantastically well drawn and an amazing story....beutiful, touching, and downright creepy story set in a small town called Lovecraft and an Ancestral home known only as the Keyhouse. amazing amazing amazing book.

Heh, I still have Preacher to finish, and I just got the rest of Transmetropolitan this x-mas.

SineSwiper wrote:Heh, I still have Preacher to finish, and I just got the rest of Transmetropolitan this x-mas.

Get the Locke and Key hardcover. it's the best lovecraftian horror I have ever read.....it's absolutely brilliant

What's it about? I am just about caught up on Fables.

I finally finished Preacher. So awesome.

I've also read the Y the Last Man first volume. That one is REALLY good in a variety of surprising ways.

family living in california dad is a teacher. dad dies. they movie into his ancestral home filled with locked doors and the weird things that happen when you walk through them.....

it's impossible to describe without spoiling.....

It's tragically sad and yet at the same time it doesn't wallow in depression. it's about a family getting stronger and past the tragedy that changed them all. Every character grows stronger throughout and I love them all by the end of it....except the bads....they are fucked up....

Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder, with astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez.

From Publishers Weekly
Novelist Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box, crafts a gripping account of the shattered Locke family's attempt to rebuild after the father/husband is murdered by a deranged high school student and the family subsequently moving in with the deceased father's brother at the family homestead in Maine. But as anyone who has read horror fiction in the past 70-odd years will tell you, it's a bad idea to try to leave behind the gruesome goings-on in your life by moving to an island named Lovecraft. What begins as a study in coping with grief soon veers into creepy territory as the youngest Locke discovers a doorway with decidedly spectral qualities, along with a well that houses someone or something that desperately wants out and will use any means available to gain freedom, including summoning the teenage murderer who set events in motion in the first place. To say more would give away many of the surprises the creative team provides, but this first of hopefully several volumes delivers on all counts, boasting a solid story bolstered by exceptional work from Chilean artist Rodriguez (Clive Barker's The Great and Secret Show) that resembles a fusion of Rick Geary and Cully Hamner with just a dash of Frank Quitely.

Sounds cool. I should be headed into the comic shop for my tri-weekly pickup soon so I'll look for it.

Lox wrote:Sounds cool. I should be headed into the comic shop for my tri-weekly pickup soon so I'll look for it.

do so. and the second volume of it just started up. Issue 1 of Locke & Key : Head Games came out this week. It was still awesome