Torches
Paperback, 16 pages
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In the near future, the human population has been decimated. In the early twenty-first century, a confederation of vampires working in secret and spread over the continents coordinated a takeover of the human world, and within days the vast majority of the human world had been either destroyed or enslaved.
In the story’s present, only a few decades after what vampires refer to as “Emergence,” most of the planet’s surface is uninhabited by vampires or humans, but beneath the surface are warrens in which vampires live their supernaturally long lives, keeping their “cattle pits” of humans. By sowing discord among the humans who serve and nourish them, the vampires keep themselves in power and well fed.
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"An ominous folktale. Highly recommended."
"Torches" exhibits a kind of honesty, a folktale beauty and gloominess, rarely seen in other graphic novels in the horror genre. This preview demonstrates the promise of a depth that puts "Torches" in a class of its own. There’s a literary quality about it—- something that (in my experience with graphic novels) I don't often see. It’s soft-spoken and well-paced, unfolding like a fable, starting at precisely the right moment (two frames in, the wandering woman is already calling “Help me!” from the corn) and moving fluidly through exposition to an ending that makes the reader eager for the next installment. This graphic novel draws on the traditions of the old masters of horror (if you liked Matheson's "I Am Legend" or King's "'Salem's Lot," you'll like this). Highly recommended.
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