The Butcher's Boy
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- USD 11.99
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- USD 11.99
Publisher Description
Deep within the backroads of the Pacific Northwest, an entire town fell victim to the brutal cleaver of the Butcher of La Perdita.
But that was more than a hundred years ago, and in that time the generational nightmare of murder and meat has been reduced to morbid clickbait folklore for bored travelers to share online.
And yet some say the Butcher still haunts the streets at night, seeking fresh meat for his larder. A true Lovecraftian horror? Or just the feverish dreams of a mentally unstable serial killer. Six friends on a road trip are about to find out…
Combining elements from tales such as Midsommar and The Evil Dead, this spine-tingling horror lurches from the minds of New York Times bestselling author Landry Q. Walker and artist Justin Greenwood of the critically acclaimed series The Last Siege.
Collects The Butcher’s Boy #1–#4.
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Cannibalistic body horror meets cosmic terror in this juicy feast of fear from Walker (The Last Siege) and Greenwood (the Stumptown series). Six bickering friends in search of an offbeat vacation pull up to a sleepy western town that was terrorized 100 years ago by a serial killer called the Butcher of the Silver Mines. ("It's folk horror. Very popular right now," the most online member of the group assures the gang.) After sampling the local diner's burgers, they experience hunger, hallucinations, and worse. In classic horror fashion, when they try to escape, their car won't start. Flashbacks fill in the characters' backstories, while in the present, their relationships, minds, and bodies disintegrate. As the terror ratchets up from cannibalistic killers to vaster and stranger threats, Walker's script draws from H.P. Lovecraft and his acolytes, including Laird Barron, while Greenwood's dynamic, character-focused art has an off-kilter edge reminiscent of '90s indie artists like Sam Kieth. Deep shadows and close-ups of meat and teeth create a menacing mood from the start. Readers with an appetite for splatter will be satisfied.
