Joe Hill To Write A One-Shot ‘Creepshow’ Special

Comic book horror master and New York Times Bestseller, Joe Hill (Locke & Key), is to script an all-new Creepshow one-shot along with collaborators by Jason Ciaramella (C is for Cthulu) and Michael Walsh (The Silver Coin) for Skybound/Image Comics.

The full title, Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station, is an adaption of his acclaimed short story of the same name, will be out on Wednesday March 27, 2024 and tells “the terrifying tale of a businessman whose commute is about to get a lot hairier when his train makes an unexpected stop at ‘Wolverton Station’!” And expect a special guest appearance from The Creep as well as an expansion of the original prose tale.

Speaking about this new comic, Joe Hill stated:

“I’m always glad to renew my acquaintance with The Creep and reconnect with the gleeful gross-outs that are the hallmark of Creepshow in all its manifestations, from film to TV to comics. I wrote ‘Wolverton Station’ over a decade ago, working longhand while I traveled the UK by train for a book tour, and right from the start I knew I was writing a Creepshow kind of thing. It’s the story of a cut-throat dealmaker, someone who thinks of himself as quite a wolf, running afoul of creatures whose fangs are in no way metaphorical. At its dark heart, it’s a fairy tale — not one of the modern fairy tales, the sort safely sanitized by Disney for mass consumption, but the older kind of fable, the sort with teeth. That kind of story is The Creep’s stock-and-trade and so it feels exactly right that the story should be adapted for Creepshow’s pestilent pages.” 

Jason Ciaramella added:

“If I had to pick a favorite genre, the mashup of horror and comedy (Is there a name for this? Horromedy? Comorror?) would almost certainly be at the top of my list. So, obviously, Creepshow has been something I’ve loved for basically my entire life. Wolverton Station marks my third contribution to the Creepshow legacy, and my second with both Joe and Michael. With Joe, it was a collaboration on a Tom Savini-Directed episode of Creepshow for Shudder called ‘By the Silver Water of Lake Champlain.’ With Michael, though he didn’t know it at the time, it was a special Creepshow-themed set of Magic: The Gathering cards produced by Wizards of the Coast. I love playing in this blood-slicked universe of twists and hilarity and surprise endings, but when I get to do it with a couple of talented creeps like Michael and Joe, well, that’s just something extra special, innit?”

Michael Walsh concluded:

“I’ve been a fan of Joe and Jason’s work for a long time, so to say I was excited to collaborate would be an understatement.Drawing a terrifying tale tinged with black comedy is right up my alley, and getting to work with editor Alex Antone again has been a dream.  I can’t wait for all the horror fans out there to get a bloody taste of what we’ve been brewing up.” 

In addition to the main cover by Michael Walsh, Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station comes with a lineup of variant covers, by Gabriel Rodriguez (Locke & Key) and a 1:10 incentive cover by illustrator Maria Wolf.

The full list of covers is below:

• Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station CVR A by Michael Walsh
• Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station CVR B by Gabriel Rodriguez
• Creepshow: Joe Hill’s Wolverton Station CVR C by Maria Wolf