To win back her brother's soul from Hell, Mary Locke has done the unthinkable: she's seized control of the imprisoned Dream Lord's artifacts of power and crossed over into his place of power, the Dreaming! Unfortunately, she's managed to find herself in the middle of a war for the future of the kingdom, led by none other than the monstrous Corinthianâ¦and even if she can survive that encounter, the road to Hell ends in locked gates guarded by Etrigan the Demon and the all-powerful Lucifer himself! Of course, the Locke family has always had a knack for making keys⦠The second and final chapter of DC and IDW's critically acclaimed crossover saga will change the way readers see the worlds of The Sandman and Locke & Key for years to comeâ”for fans of either title, it's absolutely unmissable!
If you think you can unlock the gates of Hell and just invite yourself in, you must be Dreaming! The epic crossover between two of the most beloved fantasy universes in comics begins here. John Jack Locke is ten years dead, but that hasn't stopped him from posting the occasional letter home... from Hell. Now Mary Locke will do anything to save her brother's soul, including cut a deal with Roderick Burgess-the most evil man in England-to search for answers in the House of Mystery and risk the walking nightmare known as the Corinthian to find help in a disintegrating Kingdom of Dreams!
All Six Volumes! Unlock the mysteries of Keyhouse! Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez's extraordinary tale of the Locke family is collected in its entirely in this handsome slipcase set. Includes all six softcover volumes of the Locke & Key series. A perfect gift for the comic reader in your life.
Named a modern masterpiece by The A.V. Club, the critically-acclaimed series Locke & Key takes on new life in a reformatted oversized hardcover collection. The end is here! Volume 3 features the fifth and sixth L&K arcs, Clockworks and Alpha & Omega, with all-new cover art and design by co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez.
Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder: Locke & Key. Written by Hill and featuring astounding artwork from Gabriel Rodriguez, Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all... Locke & Key creator Hill has received the Bram Stoker Award for Best Fiction Collection, the British Fantasy Award for Best Collection and Best Short Story, and the Sydney J. Bounds Best Newcomer Award-2007, among his growing collection of critical accolades. This collection of Locke & Key, in development as a major motion picture by Dimension Films, features an introduction by Robert Crais, author of the best-selling Elvis Cole novels. [Joe Hill (W); Gabriel Rodriguez (A & C)]
Joe Hill (w) Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c) The Eisner-nominated Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them, and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all! Now available as a softcover trade paperback for the first time! TPB Full Color. o 152 Pages ISBN: 978-1-60010-384-1
Joe Hill (w) o Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c) New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the Eisner-nominated creators behind the acclaimed Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, return with the second hardcover L&K collection. In Head Games, we are introduced to some new characters, explore the backstory of the town and the Locke family, and experience a second magical and mind-altering key. The collection also includes bonus sketches and backup material from Rodriguez. HC o. Full Color. o o 152 pages. ISBN: 978-1-60010-483-1
Joe Hill (w) Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c) New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the creators behind the acclaimed Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, return with the next chapter in the ongoing tale, Head Games. Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack's dark secret. Open your mind-the head games are just getting started! TPB Full Color. 156 Pages.
The third storyline in the Eisner-nominated series by Joe Hill (Horns) and Gabriel Rodriguez. Sam Lesser may be dead and gone, but Dodge still has uses for him, and in the first chill days of October, will make contact with him again. The dead know things the living may not, and Sam's restless spirit has had time to discover the thing Dodge wants to know most of all... where to find the key to the black door. [Gabriel Rodriguez]
Joe Hill (w) Gabriel Rodriguez (a) & (c) The dead plot against the living, the darkness closes in on Keyhouse, and a woman is shattered beyond repair, in the third storyline of the acclaimed series. Dodge continues his relentless quest to find the key to the black door, and raises an army of shadows to wipe out anyone who might get in his way. Surrounded and outnumbered, the Locke children find themselves fighting a desperate battle, all alone, in a world where the night itself has become their enemy.
Joe Hill (w) Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c) Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys to the Kingdom. With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke's family's mysteries ever-expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion.
Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez's Locke & Key unwinds into its fourth volume in Keys To The Kingdom. With more keys making themselves known, and the depths of the Locke's family's mysteries ever expanding, Dodge's desperation to end his shadowy quest drives the habitants of Keyhouse ever closer to a revealing conclusion. [(W) Joe Hill (A/CA) Gabriel Rodriguez]
Joe Hill (w) Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c) The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the whispering iron thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time, and surprises beyond imagination will be revealed. [(W) Joe Hill (A/CA) Gabriel Rodriguez]
Tyler and Kinsey Locke have no idea that their now-deceased nemesis - Lucas Dodge Caravaggio - has taken over the body of their younger brother, Bode. With unrestricted access to Keyhouse, Dodge's ruthless quest to find the Omega Key and open the Black Door is almost complete. But Tyler and Kinsey have a dangerous key of their own - one that can unlock all the secrets of Keyhouse by opening a gateway to the past. The time has come for the Lockes to face their own legacy and the darkness behind the Black Door. Because if they don't learn from their family history, they may be doomed to repeat it, and time is running out. [(W) Joe Hill (A/CA) Gabriel Rodriguez]
The shadows have never been darker and the end has never been closer. Turn the key and open the last door; it's time to say goodbye. Omega and Alpha, the final two storylines of the New York Times bestselling series, are collected together to offer a thunderous and compelling conclusion to Locke & Key. An event not to be missed! [(W) Joe Hill (A/CA) Gabriel Rodriguez]
The final trade paperback of the award-winning series is here! It took two lifetimes and countless victims, but Lucas Dodge Caravaggio has his terrible prize at last: the key that will open The Black Door. The final tragedy unfolds... a confrontation between decency and hate in the caverns a hundred feet beneath Keyhouse, at the threshold of an evil kept for generations under lock and key.
Jonathan Locke uses the power of the Anywhere Key to flee the slaughter in Ypres and return to Keyhouse. But now the door is open between Flanders Fields and Lovecraft, Massachusetts... and the sinister Oberlutenant Eric Murnau has led a small band through to claim the magical keys for Germany! [((w) Joe Hill /(a) Gabriel Rodriguez /(ca) Gabriel Rodriguez)]
The End. A door claps softly shut. A key scrapes in a last rusted lock. It ends here: the story of the Locke children and their desperate, tragic battle with the monster set on destroying them... the past. Join Gabriel Rodriguez and Joe Hill for the final chapter of Locke & Key. [(W) Joe Hill (A/CA) Gabriel Rodriguez]
Joe Hill (w) Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c) Chapter Three 'the Keepers of the Keys' - With the Timeshift Key in their hands, the past is an open book to the Locke children. It's time for answers; it's time for the truth. And now that Dodge knows where Tyler has been hiding the key to the black door, time is running out...
Joe Hill (w) Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c) The Eisner- and Scream Awards-nominated series continues! Dodge takes possession of the crown of shadows, and darkness falls upon Keyhouse. with a vengeance. Retailers: See your order form for a special incentive.
Kinsey and Bode find themselves in a desperate, seemingly unwinnable battle against a rising army of living shadows, while Tyler faces down Dodge in a terrifying duel of wits and wills.
Joe Hill (w) Gabriel Rodriguez (a & c) Chapter 5: Light of Day. Four words: "Giants hitting each other." Don't miss the most smash-tastic fight issue of the year!
This new edition collects all six volumes of the critically acclaimed series into one massive hardcover collection with dust jacket featuring gorgeous new front and back cover art by Locke & Key co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez. Named a "modern masterpiece" by The A.V. Club, 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, NOS4A2) has created a gripping story of dark fantasy and wonder-with astounding artwork from Eisner-Award-winner Rodríguez-that, like the doors of Keyhouse, will transform all who open it.
When Squadron Strange accept a mission from a ghost, they find themselves on their most perilous raid ever... straight into the heart of a haunted mansion! Sgt. Rufus Whedon and Corporal Bode Locke have a terrifying lesson to learn: if you're dealing with a dead man, you better think fast and fight hard, if you don't want to wind up one yourself!
Three years after wrapping up their award-winning, best-selling Locke & Key saga, the team that built Keyhouse returns to Lovecraft, Massachusetts with a new tale of terror and suspense! An impossible birthday gift for two little girls unexpectedly throws open a door to a monster on eight legs! This deluxe hardcover edition contains the new 24-page story and adds pages from various drafts of Joe Hill's scripts, from the earliest hand-written pages to the various revisions; process pages from Gabriel Rodriguez; a special pinup from Brian Coldrick, and more!
Unlock moments from Keyhouse's long history, expanding the saga of the Locke family in this collection of stories, which includes the epic crossover with DC's The Sandman Universe! For two hundred years, the Locke family has watched over Keyhouse, a New England mansion where reality has come unhinged and shadows are known to walk on their own. Here they have guarded a collection of impossible keys, instruments capable of unlocking both unparalleled wonder and unimaginable evil. Take a glimpse into the lives of Chamberlin Locke and his family in the early 20th century as they use the keys to fight battles big and small. From the killing fields of Europe during WWI and the depths of Hell, the Lockes are in a constant struggle to keep the dark forces of their world at bay. Collects three standalone tales, Small World, the Eisner-nominated Open the Moon, and the never-before-seen Face the Music, along with the 3-part ...In Pale Battalions Go and the epic 80-page crossover with The Sandman Universe, Hell & Gone all from the co-creators of Locke & Key, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez!
