Image Comics announced the next graphic novel from Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips will be titled Houses of the Unholy, which has been described as “Satanic Panic Noir.”
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 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,” said Brubaker. “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.”
Unfortunately, there is going to be a longer wait time on this one – as we’ll have to wait until August for Houses of the Unholy to arrive.
“We’ve been working on this one since last summer, and it’s coming out next August, because that’s how things work now that we’re doing original graphic novels, our lead time keeps growing to fit the book market. And we have to print overseas to make it all work, which adds many many months to the printing time. The single issue market got me used to instant satisfaction or close to it, so these long waits are killing me. ”
On the plus side, here are some preview pages:
