Storm King Comics announced the July 2024 release of The Killing Hole, a new graphic novel by Steve Niles and Trevor Denham.
Told by Niles (30 Days of Night, Remains) as a mysterious confession by an aging man, THE KILLING HOLE flashes back to 1979. That’s when 14-year-old loner Stewart crosses paths with newly arrived and equally alienated Peter. In their shared disdain for school and mutual love of edgy music, the boys form a fast friendship, allowing them both to escape their suffocating, dead-end home lives. Endlessly tormented by bullies, the two boys find solace and encouragement in their friendship—even if the adults around them disapprove.
As the two boys grow closer, they build a safe space together—an underground bunker where they can be themselves. But that space turns substantially less safe as their friendship and fantasies take turns at first dark and then deadly.
Rooted in the pre-technology days of the late 1970s, THE KILLING HOLE offers a dark and disturbing exploration of the suburban idyll often presented in popular culture, digging deep into the darkest territory of teenage angst.
“Steve Niles has created a singularly engrossing and surprisingly affecting story that contains all the characteristics of grounded horror with added drama, pathos, and a deep understanding of the darker side of humanity,” said Storm King Comics founder and editor Sandy King in a press release. “Aided by Trevor Denham’s spectacularly evocative and haunting illustrations, this is a book we think will take up permanent residence in the memories of everyone who reads it.”
The Killing Hole arrives on July 10, 2024.
