‘Houses Of The Unholy’ Is Brubaker And Phillips Next Collaborative Graphic Novel
by Olly MacNamee
The multiple Eisner Award winning creative team of writer Ed Brubaker and artist Sean Phillips are to produce on a new crime thriller graphic novel for Image Comics, Houses of the Unholy this summer.
Houses of the Unholy is another crime noir from the two synonymous with the genre but a much darker and more sinister tale, as the title suggest.
Here’s Brubaker with more:
“Houses of the Unholy is something I’ve been describing as Satanic Panic Noir. It’s somewhere in-between a creepy horror story and a f*cked-up noir, and directly tied to the Satanic Panic craze of the ’80s. The book really speaks to my obsessions with cult horror, and plays with the demonic tropes of classic horror from Hammer to Carpenter to Stephen King. The fear that was everywhere back then has clearly resurfaced, and that made me want to dive back into those dark waters and try to find a Brubaker-Phillips take on noir and horror at the same time.”
Ad for the plot…
“In this new tale, an FBI agent from the cult crime beat and a woman with a past linked to the Satanic Panic are drawn into a terrifying hunt for an insane killer hiding in the shadows of the underworld.
This pulse-pounding story asks: can you ever escape your past, or are all your bad decisions just more ghosts to haunt you, wherever you go?”
Houses of the Unholy will be available at local comic book shops on Wednesday, August 14th and independent bookstores the day before, on Tuesday, August 13th from Image Comics.
