The master of horror's epic tale, adapted into a twelve-issue comic series and collected here in its entirety in a new deluxe paperback edition.
From inside a Nebraska dead letter office, Randolph Jaffe's quest to possess the Art sets into motion a battle between forces light and dark. This lushly illustrated tale is equal parts horror, fantasy, and love by one of the masters of the genre.
Also included is the one issue adaptation of the short story "Seduth," as well as annotations by writer Chris Ryall and artist Gabriel Rodriguez.
Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with the bestselling Books of Blood, which established him as an icon of the horror genre. His other books include Imajica, The Great and Secret Show, The Thief of Always, Abarat, and Galilee, among others. He's also worked in film as a writer, director, and producer, on such movies as Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Candyman, and The Midnight Meat Train, to name a few. He lives is Los Angeles.
Chris Ryall is the co-creator of Zombies vs Robots with Ashley Wood. Ryall has also co-created and written Groom Lake, The Colonized, The Hollows, and Onyx, and has also written adaptations of stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Richard Matheson. He is also the co-author of a prose book about comics, Comic Books 101, and has written comics based on the Transformers, the band Kiss, Mars Attacks, Weekly World News, and Hasbro's Rom. Ryall and ZvR co-creator Ashley Wood were nominated for the 2006 Eisner Award for "Best Short Story."
The master of horror's epic tale, adapted into a twelve-issue comic series and collected here in its entirety in a new deluxe paperback edition.
From inside a Nebraska dead letter office, Randolph Jaffe's quest to possess the Art sets into motion a battle between forces light and dark. This lushly illustrated tale is equal parts horror, fantasy, and love by one of the masters of the genre.
Also included is the one issue adaptation of the short story "Seduth," as well as annotations by writer Chris Ryall and artist Gabriel Rodriguez.
Author
Clive Barker was born in Liverpool in 1952. He rose to prominence in the 1980s with the bestselling Books of Blood, which established him as an icon of the horror genre. His other books include Imajica, The Great and Secret Show, The Thief of Always, Abarat, and Galilee, among others. He's also worked in film as a writer, director, and producer, on such movies as Hellraiser, Nightbreed, Candyman, and The Midnight Meat Train, to name a few. He lives is Los Angeles.
Chris Ryall is the co-creator of Zombies vs Robots with Ashley Wood. Ryall has also co-created and written Groom Lake, The Colonized, The Hollows, and Onyx, and has also written adaptations of stories by Stephen King, Clive Barker, and Richard Matheson. He is also the co-author of a prose book about comics, Comic Books 101, and has written comics based on the Transformers, the band Kiss, Mars Attacks, Weekly World News, and Hasbro's Rom. Ryall and ZvR co-creator Ashley Wood were nominated for the 2006 Eisner Award for "Best Short Story."
