Comixology And Stout Club Announce Horror Miniseries ‘Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story’

by Olly MacNamee

Comixology Originals and Stout Club Entertainment — to use their full titles — have announced a new digital-first, five-issue miniseries set in the Great Depression, full of horror, terror and suspense: Devil’s Luck: A Hailstone Story.

Written by Stout Club Entertainment co-founder Rafael Scavone with art and colour by Eduardo Ferigato, letters by Deyvison Manes, with covers by fellow Stout Club Entertainment co-founder, artist Rafael Albuquerque and edited by Greg Lockard, the series focuses on “a naïve dentist (Tim Beacon) who takes part in a sinister plot to profit from the golden teeth of a mysterious patient … a dentist stuck in a remote mining town, who is desperate to fund his California dream” and returns us to the isolated Montana town featured in Scavone’s previous comic series of the same name.

Speaking of the period in which this new series is set, Scavone said:

“My background as a historian frequently leads me to be curious about specific passages in history, and I enjoy very much diving into the details of a given period and catching some things to bring back into a fictional story. In Devil’s Luck I picked the worst year of the Great Depression not only due to the social and financial turmoil in the U.S., but also because of the skyrocketed price of gold. This helped me ambush the characters in their personal hell of greed and treason, and the main character of Devil’s Luck is a dentist, an ordinary profession nowadays, but a rare one in the 1930s.”

Adding:

“I’m super excited for folks to read it because Devil’s Luck has all the elements of a good horror comic. While Hailstone mixed horror with sci-fi and western, Devil’s Luck creeps to a much darker corner, merging psychological horror and violent crimes with a twist of the supernatural.”

Brazilian artist, Ferigato, also added:

“As soon as I read Scavone’s script, I couldn’t wait to start drawing. It’s such an engaging and thrilling story — full of greed, betrayal, and a touch of the occult. While I was exploring different inking styles to capture the right visual tone, something Rafael Albuquerque told me really stuck: in a horror story, mood is far more important than perfect lines. That became my guiding compass for the book — dark, gritty, and full of shadows, much like Scavone’s characters themselves. I hope readers enjoy it as much as I’ve enjoyed bringing it to life.”