John Lord #2

The cover of this 2023 Dark Dragon Books release sets an immediately unsettling mood: a composed blonde woman in a white outfit stands before a ramshackle stilt house, while a luminous, spectral female figure looms large in the murky green darkness above. Patrick Laumond's cover art balances the grounded and the otherworldly with striking effect, making "Duistere zoektocht" (Dark Quest) feel like exactly the kind of atmospheric mystery its title promises. Writers Denis-Pierre Filippi and Remco Koning continue their collaboration with Laumond on this second chapter of John Lord, and the tension between the earthly and the supernatural is already palpable before you've turned a single page.