
The family patriarch Rendell was a principal of a high school, and two of his students broke into his home, raped his wife, murdered him, and attempted to hunt down his three children Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode. “Welcome to Lovecraft” introduces us to the Locke family, which has just experienced an unspeakable tragedy. Had it been a weekend evening as opposed to a midday during the week that I finished this volume, I would have been Roy Kent upon finishing. Like, holy shit this is relentless in its bleakness bleak. But I had forgotten how bleak the first volume is. I remembered how much I enjoyed the series overall. Since I’ve had a good time re-reading graphic series that I’ve loved, I thought that I would make my next re-read “Locke and Key”. I eventually tore through the whole series, with my husband giving me the complete set as my graduation present in 2015.

I didn’t know that much about it outside of the fact that I loved Joe Hill, and I checked out Volume 1, “Welcome to Lovecraft” from the library with very little to go off of.

Review: Back when I was still in graduate school, I decided to look into Joe Hill’s comic series “Locke and Key”. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all… 1): Welcome to Lovecraft” by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez (Ill.).īook Description: Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. In 2019, he partnered with Hill once again for two new Locke & Key stories, “Dog Days” and “Nailed It.Book: “Locke & Key (Vol.

He continued developing other creator-owned projects: the Eisner-winning Little Nemo: Return to Slumberland, with Eric Shanower Sword of Ages and the gritty sci-fi adventure Onyx, with Chris Ryall. In 2007, he co-created the award-winning series Locke & Key with Joe Hill. He earned the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long-running comic book series, Locke & Key, featuring the eye-popping art of Gabriel Rodríguez.īorn in Santiago, Chile, Gabriel Rodríguez began working as an illustrator in the late 90s and in 2002 started drawing books for IDW Publishing, including CSI, George Romero’s Land of the Dead, and Beowulf, amongst others. His book of short stories, 20th Century Ghosts, won the Bram Stoker Award and British Fantasy Award for Best Collection. Joe Hill is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Full Throttle, The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box, and NOS4A2, recently made into a TV series from AMC. His horror novella In the Tall Grass, co-written with Stephen King, was made into a feature film from Netflix.
