Locke & Key #1
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft collects the first six issues of the acclaimed horror-fantasy series by Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodríguez. After the murder of their father, the Locke children—Tyler, Kinsey, and Bode—move with their mother Nina to the family's ancestral home in Lovecraft, Massachusetts, where Bode discovers a mysterious key that unlocks strange and dangerous powers. The volume introduces the eerie Keyhouse estate and the malevolent entity Sam Lesser, setting the stage for a dark saga of grief, magic, and survival.
"Welcome to Lovecraft: Chapter One" kicks off Joe Hill’s acclaimed series with a haunting, character-driven opening that sets the tone for the Locke family’s mysterious new life. As Sam journeys to Lovecraft, his memories of a troubled past unfold in quiet, powerful moments—revealing fractured family dynamics, buried grief, and the weight of secrets shared between brothers. Gabriel Rodriguez’s evocative art, from the grounded realism of Sam’s journey to the eerie intimacy of the Locke house, brings the story’s emotional and supernatural undercurrents to life, while the cover by Rodriguez captures the story’s brooding atmosphere in striking detail.
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Sam makes his way across the country. He tells his story to a truck driver. Sam's father beat him regularly, his mother ignored his accomplishments, and the school jocks tormented him. Sam also recalls that Duncan Locke tried very hard to help Sam with college applications, and he remembers Tyler being so mad at his father that Tyler says offhandedly that if Sam ever kills his own dad that he should kill Tyler's dad too. In Lovecraft, Tyler struggles with having to maintain a macho outer image for Bode and his true feelings of overwhelming grief. Bode tries to answers a knock-knock joke.
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