“A sumptuous and remarkable adaptation of the classic story by Algernon Blackwood. Meanwhile, Ford’s Wrightson-esque illustrations bring the setting vividly to life, shifting as fluidly as the narrator’s sense of reality.” – Tor.com Carson respects Blackwood’s language, playing with it in key places to serve the story. “Carson and Ford’s graphic novel is an excellent adaptation, building onto the original framework with a modern sensibility and a deeper depiction of the central relationship. Lovecraft himself considered to be the finest supernatural story in English literature finally gets it’s own comic book adaptation.” – Broken Frontier “The classic tale of mystery and horror that H. Features a 12 page prequel story never published elsewhere. And those for whom it is new will want to leave a light on for many nights after. Readers familiar with the story will delight in seeing it depicted in such painstaking, quality illustrations.
What they discover on that crumbling sandbar makes them question their sanity, fear for their lives, and revel in otherworldly strangeness. Two adventurous women, one British, one Swedish, encounter strange horrors in the Hungarian wilderness of 1907. Writer Nathan Carson’s thoughtful retelling reverently preserves the plot while breathing character-driven depth into this all-time classic. This immortal novella of extra-dimensional weirdness on the Danube comes to vivid life in graphic comic form thanks to the incredibly detailed black-and-white linework of talented newcomer, Sam Ford.
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