EPIC TALES OF MYSTERY
MADNESS AND MAYHEM
Noir • Science Fiction • Mystery • Crime • Fantasy • Horror
What if Raymond Chandler wrote 2001: A Space Odyssey with a side
of Elmore Leonard and a dash of Stephen King and Shirley Jackson?
The Locksmith
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]
The Crossroads
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]
Arroyo Seco
Great Story. Loved the Art. One of the best parts of conventions is discovering authors that are new to me. I bought [Arroyo Seco] from the author and I am very glad that I did. The story is engaging and pulled me in, leaving me wanting the next comic.
The art style fits the story, with some panels with vibrant colors and others with a darker, more muted color palette that fits the dialogue and the tone through the story.
FIVE STARS
[Amazon Reader]
Terrance Grace is an award-winning writer, director, and visual artist, who explores emotionally-charged subjects that cross cultural boundaries. Aside from his comic and graphic novel work, he has seven optioned feature screenplays and three independently produced films to his credit. His photographs and artwork are available for purchase on Artilism.
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