Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
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4.5 • 247 Ratings
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
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: Locke and Key. Written by Hill and featuring astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke and 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...
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.
Customer Reviews
Great
I didn't realize what I was buying. I had heard the name before and a buzz about a TV show. This went beyond my expectations, a pleasant surprise.
It would benefit readers though if there were a message telling the reader to double tap the page to fit it in portrait mode
It is a truly great series, but....
Here is the problem: even reading in landscape mode, the type is too small to be read comfortably because the iPad is trying to display 2 pages at once.
If you bump up the page size, you lose that wonderful composition of the art.
I am hopeful to someday read graphics on an e-reader but for now, buy the paper versions , they are extremely well-written and beautifully illustrated.
Amazing read!
If you enjoyed the show, this is so much better! Great read and great art!