DC has announced a brand new `pop-up imprint` under its adult-reader Black Label line called Hill House Comics, spearheaded by horror author and comics veteran Joe Hill (Locke & Key, NOS4A2).The pop-up imprint will kick off with the first of five announced stories: Basket Full Of Heads, created by Hill and artist Leomacs. It tells the story of a woman named June Branch on a mission to save her kidnapped boyfriend, wielding an `impossible 8th-century Viking ax` that can `pass through a neck in a single swipe, leaving the severed head conscious and capable of speech.`Basket Full Of Heads will be joined by four other monthly limited series and one ongoing back-up story featured in each Hill House Comics issue.The Low, Low Woods is created by Carmen Maria Machado and artist Dani. The synopsis reads, `a mysterious plague is afflicting the small mining town of Shudder to Think, Pennsylvania. It strikes seemingly at random, eating away at the memories of those suffering from it. From tales of rabbits with human eyes to deer women who come to the windows of hungry girls at night, this town is one of those places where strange things are always happening. But no one ever seems to question why.` The Low Low Woods is `a gruesome coming-of-age body-horror mystery series about two teenage women trying to uncover the truth about the mysterious memory-devouring illness affecting them and the people of the small mining town they call home-and the more they discover, the more disturbing the truth becomes.`The Dollhouse Family by Mike Carey and Peter Gross tells the story of a young girl named Alice who is given a mysterious dollhouse by a late aunt that Alice can actually enter `to visit a new group of friends, straight out of a heartwarming childrenīs novel: the Dollhouse family. As the years pass, Alice finds herself visiting their world more frequently, slowly losing track of where reality ends and make-believe begins. What starts as play concludes in an eruption of madness ...
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