A dazzling work of horror, intercutting between the present day and
the story of a lost film.
Horror masters Scott Snyder (American Vampire, Wytches) and
Francesco Francavilla (Afterlife with Archie) collaborate for the
first time!
This graphic novel is a bold and bloody reimagining of horror monsters
that celebrates classic creature features, while creating an unsettling
and contemporary new kind of horror story.
Horror film obsessive Forest Inman stumbles across a seemingly forgotten
canister of old footage. Thinking he has found the legendary unreleased
would-be classic 1936 film "Night of the Ghoul," he sets off on a dark
odyssey to the California desert, where he's warned that the film's
ghoul is far more than a work of fiction: it's a very real monster who
plans to kill him.
It was said to be the greatest horror movie in cinematic history. Shot
in 1936, "Night of the Ghoul" by writer/director T.F. Merritt was meant
to sit beside "Frankenstein" and "Dracula" as an instant classic...But
the legendary film never made it to the silver screen. Just before
editing was finished, a mysterious studio fire destroyed the footage and
killed the cast and crew celebrating at wrap-party.
Rumors of the doomed film's greatness persist to this day, but no
footage from it was ever recovered...until now. Forest Inman is a horror
film obsessive who digitizes old films for the famed Aurora movie
studio. When Forest stumbles across a seemingly forgotten canister of
footage, he just might have discovered the remnants of the lost classic
"Night of the Ghoul."
This discovery sends Forest on a dark odyssey to the California desert,
where he's warned by a mysterious old man that the film's ghoul is far
more than a work of fiction: it's a very real monster who plans to kill
him.
Collects Night of the Ghoul #1-#3 (originally published by Comixology
and republished as single issues by Dark Horse).
