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The Courtyard
Horror/Lovecraft Mythos

"Thrilling and intriguing... An entrancing comic"
Greg McElhatton, iComics

"One of the best adaptations in comic form I've ever read"
Chris Beckett, Independent Propaganda

FBI Agent Aldo Sax has a problem. His boss has sent him deep undercover to investigate a series of bizarre and horrific murders, related only by the brutal fashion in which the victims were mutilated. Three unrelated people have already confessed to some of the killings. Only some.

But Sax is an Anomaly Theorist; finding links between unrelated factors is what he does. If he can find a link between the three confessed killers, it may lead him to a fourth. But down in the urban twilight of Red Hook, Sax is about to find that the path he needs to follow leads straight to... The Courtyard.

Adapted fom an original short story by Alan Moore.

Indicia

Artist: Jacen Burrows (303, SCARS)
Format: 56pp paperback
Publisher: Avatar Press
Order codes: Bookstores ISBN 1592910157 | Comic stores OCT032121


Also available:

The Courtyard Companion

A complementary volume to THE COURTYARD, the COMPANION contains something for every avid fan of Moore and Lovecraft:

  • The original short story by Alan Moore
  • The full adaptation scripts by Antony
  • Exhaustive annotations on the script by Lovecraft scholar NG Christakos
  • Design sketches and pinup art by Jacen Burrows
  • A new essay on Moore and Lovecraft by Antony
  • The "deleted scene" from the adaptation's original ending, which was changed just days before its original publication.

    Indicia

    Artist: Jacen Burrows (303, SCARS)
    Format: 72pp paperback
    Publisher: Avatar Press
    Order codes: Bookstores ISBN 1592910165 | Comic stores OCT032122

    The Courtyard © Alan Moore.