Haunthology

by Jeremy Haun, Jeremy Haun (Artist)

Overview

From fan favorite creator Jeremy Haun (The Beauty, The Realm, The Red Mother, The Approach) comes a dread-inducing collection of 28 tales of terror in, Haunthology. This hair-raising tome of short stories and vignettes features an introduction by Shirley Jackson Award winning author Nathan Ballingrud.

From creatures of the night...to even more terrifying creatures of the day, readers were first introduced to Haunthology’s nightmarish mindscapes through a successful Kickstarter campaign. Whether exploring a claustrophobic old house full of nefarious entities or exploring the heavy thoughts one has during the end of the world, this very personal project was completely written and drawn during the COVID shutdowns.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781534399891
Publisher:	Image Comics
Publication date:	05/09/2023
Pages:	152
Sales rank:	1,140,211
Product dimensions:	6.60(w) x 10.10(h) x 0.40(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

Editorial Reviews

03/13/2023

Haun (the Red Mother series) delivers a wickedly clever, if fragmented, collection of flash horror comics. Most of the tales are two or three pages, and often begin and end in medias res. In one piece, for example, a haunted protagonist catches a glimpse of a masked killer lingering outside, while in “The Arsenal,” a woman who’d previously been averse to guns starts stockpiling them; where she’s going with all the firepower or why is not made explicit. Haun’s brief evocations are a spine-tingling exercise, as readers must guess at the context and imagine their own worst nightmare scenario. Highlight piece “Hastur,” for instance, sees a guy leave his lover in bed after being beckoned by the call of someone—or something—else. For better or worse, Haun’s final panels often feel like punch lines. The black-and-white art is eerily mesmerizing and as desolate and detailed as a police sketch. Devotees and students of horror writing will be tantalized by what can feel like an R-rated spin on Chris Van Allsburg’s The Mysteries of Harris Burdick, but readers looking for fulsome storytelling will be left a bit cold. (May)

Publishers Weekly

Jeremy Haun is an expert craftsman at building short horror stories that dig under your skin and wriggle around there. Fans of great horror comics do not want to miss out on this deeply unsettling collection.” —James Tynion IV, The Department of Truth

“The Haunthology is a beautifully presented collection of splintered horrors rendered in intricately considered lines of ink. Peel away the scalp, scratch at the skull, peek inside the mind of Jeremy Haun. I dare you.” —Declan Shalvey, Bog Bodies

“The beautiful, surreal, terrifying tales in Haunthology will do more than scare you. They’ll stick with you. After reading this book, you’ll be pondering the stories, waking from vivid nightmares, and looking over your shoulder for days to come.” —Cullen Bunn, Harrow County, The Sixth Gun

“Haunthology delivers a sequence of beautifully apocalyptic vignettes. Haun’s vision of creeping doom is what I want from cosmic horror: stark, gritty, sensational.” —Laird Barron, Swift to Chase

“Jeremy Haun's Haunthology marries a meticulously detailed artistic style to a series of vignettes gruesome, strange, and disturbing. The world ends, and ends, and ends again. People ready themselves to face the unimaginable. Death looms, and so does what lies on the other side of death. Together, these brief narratives form a dark kaleidoscope. Press your eye to the lens, and see what it has to show you.” —John Langan, Children of the Fang and Other Genealogies

“Jeremy Haun has crafted something truly unsettling here, and I can’t recommend it enough.” —Alex Grecian, The Yard, Rasputin

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