EPIC TALES OF MYSTERY, MADNESS, AND MAYHEM
They Say…
I loved volume one of Cthulhu is Hard to Spell, but volume two is even better… Rating it as a Kickstarter product, it’s easily in the top three books I’ve backed. And that includes the board book of Terrance Grace’s The Crossroads, which appears in volume one. Another Grace story, Howard Dies in the End, closes this volume, and it’s perfect. [Good Reads]
Perhaps the single most emotionally affecting piece in the book – Howard Dies In the End by Terrance Grace and Silvio DB – was well-placed to close out the anthology. It encapsulates exactly the sort of lingering horror in which Lovecraft specialized. This tight little story expresses perfectly a crawling creepiness which leaves you looking at the shadows and flickers in your own heart and wondering what they are, or worse…what they mean. [Blank Box Comics]
Part sci-fi, part pulp noir, The Locksmith bristles with gritty drama [and] moves with a steady, solid, and sometimes disturbing momentum. At times feeling like a well-turned X-Files episode, the first issue lays out a number of delicious mysteries, while simultaneously managing to raise the stakes with every new development.
While noir is traditionally a genre of darkness, Grace manages to drag the dread out into the sunlight, and with the aid of Silvio DB’s deft artwork, still manages to make the open city in daytime have an oppressive weight to it. Even daylight manages to exact a toll on the inhabitants of this tale.
VERDICT: FOUR Portentous Portals of Doom out of FIVE [Fanbase Press]
The Locksmith is a slow burn that gradually gets hotter as I went from issue one to two. It’s a lovely writing style and story that kept me intrigued from start to finish. [Comicbooked]
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Terrance Grace is an award-winning writer, director, and visual artist, who explores emotionally-charged subjects that cross cultural boundaries. He has seven optioned feature screenplays and three independently produced films to his credit.
- Film and Television
- The Death of Socrates (segment director, writer)
- Sawt-e-Sarmad (co-producer, director, writer)
- Huntsville, TX (co-director, editor)
- Mr. Ahmed (director, writer) *
- The Madness of the Day (director, writer) **
- Born Again Primitive (cinematographer)
- The Pool (producer, director, writer)
- Letters From Home (director, writer)
- Feature Screenplays
- Khyber Knights TV pilot
- Dark Monday
- The Chinese Angle
- The Locksmith
- Spanish Moss
- A Greater Good
- Quitting India
- 80 ****
- Whitby
- Bring Me The Head Of Rajiv Patel ***
- Comics and Graphic Novels
- The Locksmith
- Khyber Knights
- The Crossroads
- Arroyo Seco
- * Best Narrative Film: Atlanta Film Festival
- * Special Jury Prize: San Francisco Film Festival
- ** Silver Star Award: Sacramento Film Festival
- ** Juror’s Merit Award: Sinking Creek Film Festival
- *** 1 of 12 Most Promising Projects: IFFCON ’99
- **** Sundance Writers’ Lab alternate/Sundance Producers’ Lab
Terrance Grace is an award-winning writer, director, and visual artist, who explores emotionally-charged subjects that cross cultural boundaries. He has seven optioned feature screenplays and three independently produced films to his credit.
Film and Television
The Death of Socrates (segment director, writer)
Sawt-e-Sarmad (co-producer, director, writer)
Huntsville, TX (co-director, editor)
Mr. Ahmed (director, writer) *
The Madness of the Day (director, writer) **
Born Again Primitive (cinematographer)
The Pool (producer, director, writer)
Letters From Home (director, writer)
Feature Screenplays
Khyber Knights TV pilot
Dark Monday
The Chinese Angle
The Locksmith
Spanish Moss
A Greater Good
Quitting India
80
Whitby
Bring Me The Head Of Rajiv Patel ***
Comics and Graphic Novels
The Locksmith
Khyber Knights
The Crossroads
Arroyo Seco
* Best Narrative Film: Atlanta Film Festival
* Special Jury Prize: San Francisco Film Festival
** Silver Star Award: Sacramento Film Festival
** Juror’s Merit Award: Sinking Creek Film Festival
*** 1 of 12 Most Promising Projects: IFFCON ’99
