Dig Deeper Into The Universe of Joe Hill’s Comic Series

‘Locke & Key: The Golden Age’ takes us deeper into this terrifying world.

New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill is known for his horrifying prose as seen in his novels NOS4A2, Heart-Shaped Box, and more. But Hill isn’t just about the traditional horror novel; he also created the hit horror graphic novel series Locke & Key, a Lovecraftian nightmare involving demons and special keys. Since 2008, he’s been collaborating on the series with artist Gabriel Rodriguez. It was also recently turned into a series on Netflix. Now, Hill and Rodriguez are digging deeper into this world with the upcoming Locke & Key: The Golden Age, coming on April 26 from IDW Publishing.

Locke & Key: The Golden Age is a collection of published stories within the series’ universe, compiled into a hardcover collection. It includes two published short stories, “Small World” and “Open the Moon”, the three-part miniseries “…In Pale Battalions Go…” and the two-part crossover with The Sandman Universe, “Hell & Gone.” 

Locke & Key: The Golden Age also includes the previously unpublished “Face the Music” short story. It was originally created by Hill and Rodriguez as part of a vinyl record project that never materialized. “Face the Music” is a whimsical tale of the Locke family set in the early 1900s. It also introduces a brand-new key: the Orchestra Key.

We were able to get our hands on some exclusive pages from Hell & Gone to show off the progression from pencil to ink to full color. The iconic crossover with Neil Gaiman’s The Sandman follows Mary Locke who will do anything to save her brother’s soul. Her quest to rescue him from The Pit will require her to outsmart Roderick Burgess (the evilest man in England), puzzle her way through the House of Mystery, and risk the walking nightmare known as The Corinthian in the disintegrating Kingdom of Dreams.

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