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Cullen Bunn and Cat Farris to Scare Children with New OGN 'The Ghoul Next Door'

Published Wed, 30 Jan 2019 16:07:45 -0600

Children are easy to scare and the little buggers deserve it, so we're pleased to learn that Cullen Bunn and Cat Farris are teaming up to terrify the bejeezus out of them in 2021 with a new graphic novel called The Ghoul Next Door. Set to be published by HarperCollins Children's Books, where kids will never see it coming, The Ghoul Next Door will be published in Summer of 2021 with a sequel already planned for the following year.

Comics Beat, who presumably also enjoy terrorizing kids, had the EX-X-XCLUSIVE reveal of this one, featuring a lot of words that we mostly just skimmed over, but which you can read in full here. Here's what the book is all about:

THE GHOUL NEXT DOOR is about an 11-year-old boy named Grey Brighton who befriends a ghoul named Lavinia after she helps him with his history project: a map of the cemetery. Lavinia brings him presents that are considerate by ghoul standards (and gruesome by human standards) but when she brings him home to meet the family, Grey is given a choice: become a ghoul himself by eating the dead, or death. Lavinia helps her friend escape only to put them on a collision course with the spirit of a vengeful witch, who holds Lavinia captive unless Grey helps Lavinia still the witch's mortal remains (which the ghouls have been unwittingly snacking on). Can Grey find the courage to face death in the land of the ghouls to save his friend's life?

Below, see some interior artwork from the book: