There’s a good chance that you may have encountered Locke and Key when the Netflix adaptation was released in 2020, but it also premiered in February… so you may have been fairly preoccupied with COVID at that time. Whether you have or haven’t seen the Netflix show, the comic series is well worth your time if you enjoy interesting storylines with heavy fantasy elements and, of course, horror! This comic series is fully finished, so no need to fear cliffhangers or long hiatuses.
Read on to learn about the series summary.
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The graphic novel The A.V. Club named a “modern masterpiece,” Locke & Key tells a sprawling tale of magic and family, legacy and grief, good and evil. Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times-bestselling author Joe Hill (The Fireman, Heart-Shaped Box) has created a gripping story of dark fantasy and wonder—with astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez—that, like the doors of Keyhouse, will transform all who open it. The epic begins here: Welcome to Lovecraft.
Following their father’s gruesome murder in a violent home invasion, the Locke children return to his childhood home of Keyhouse in secluded Lovecraft, Massachusetts. Their mother, Nina, is too trapped in her grief—and a wine bottle—to notice that all in Keyhouse is not what it seems: too many locked doors, too many unanswered questions. Older kids Tyler and Kinsey aren’t much better. But not youngest son Bode, who quickly finds a new friend living in an empty well and a new toy, a key, that offers hours of spirited entertainment. But again, all at Keyhouse is not what it seems, and not all doors are meant to be opened. Soon, horrors old and new, real and imagined, will come ravening after the Lockes and the secrets their family holds.
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Check it out:
- GN FIC Hil vol. 1-6
- On Overdrive/Libby
- On Hoopla
AND! Additional issues have been released since the end of the regular series:
