Dracula Lives #5
☆ Be the first to review + Add to your collection — Join freeIn "Who Stalks the Vampire?", Victor Dowling's striking art brings to life the chilling tale of Francis Tourneau, the executioner to King Louis XVI in 1769, as he grapples with the grim mechanics of justice. With inks by Bob Stuart, the story unfolds in a France on the brink of revolution, where a new device—crafted with the help of physician Joseph-Ignace Guillotin—promises efficiency, but not salvation. Pablo Marcos' cover captures the grim tension, setting the stage for a haunting descent into the past.
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Francis Tourneau is an executioner to King Louis XVI of France in the year 1769. He labors to find a more efficient means of executing prisoners. A physician named Joseph-Ignace Guillotin provides him designs for a mechanized decapitation device. The device (dubbed the guillotine) is put into use, but a revolution takes place and the prisoners storm the Bastille. They capture Tourneau who subsequently becomes the guillotine's first victim.
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