Plague House
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- CHF 15.00
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- CHF 15.00
Beschreibung des Verlags
HOUSES AREN'T THE ONLY THING THAT ARE HAUNTED. . . . Architect of terror Michael W. Conrad (Wonder Woman, In Bloom) and Ringo Award winner Dave Chisholm (Miles Davis and the Search for the Sound) launch a deep and disturbing excursion into 21st-century horror . . . Thirteen years ago, Orin McCabe was a family man living a privileged life in the California suburbs. Today, he's condemned to death row for murdering his entire family in an unexpected fit of hammer-wielding brutality. In the aftermath of his heinous crime, it's fallen to a trio of eclectic but dedicated ghost hunters—Jacob, the holy man; Holland, the skeptic; and their leader, Del, a true believer in the occult and worlds beyond—to surveil the abandoned McCabe home in search of proof for the existence of the undead . . . and whatever supernatural source may have possibly fueled McCabe’s inhuman massacre. But this ill-matched and uneasy squad of investigators is about to discover something much more terrifying than any ordinary spirit. . . . Collects Plague House #1–4.
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Conrad (the Wonder Woman series) and Ringo winner Chisholm (Miles Davis) riff on haunted house tropes in this twisty supernatural thriller about the pervasiveness of violence. Ghost hunter and social media personality Del heads a haunted-house exorcism team comprising Jacob, a devout young minister, and Holland, a snarky, nonbinary professional debunker. Del believes that sites of violence need to be spiritually cleansed: "These places are wounded," he warns. "They lash out." But after the trio encounters real ghosts, a bloody pattern emerges—someone connected to each site they cleanse ends up murdered. Del becomes obsessed with cleansing California's Salton Sea, which he believes to be particularly cursed. As the exorcists' lives and mental states unravel, buried secrets are unearthed. Chisholm's figures and faces are often stiff, but he excels at drawing scenes of horror, from a squirm-inducing masked serial killer to glowing ghosts and a hallucinatory image of a house coming to life. The boldly contrasting color schemes add to the sense of disorientation. This chiller offers more than enough shocks to make horror fans feel at home.
