Oni Press unleashes chilling new horror: "Mine is a Long, Lonesome Grave"

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Mine is a Long, Lonesome Grave #1 is a chilling new series and four-issue Appalachian revenge-horror story hitting shelves in February 2025. The creative team behind this gut-wrenching tale includes Eisner and Harvey Award-nominated writer Justin Jordan (The Strange Talent of Luther Strode, Dead Body Road) and #1 bestselling artist Chris Shehan (House of Slaughter). The publisher is Oni Press, which has printed groundbreaking comics like Scott Pilgrim and The Tea Dragon Society.

Oni’s blurb reads;

Harley Creed is a bad man. He used to be worse. A violent ex-con with a string of brutal crimes in his past, he only wanted one thing when he finally walked free from prison: to leave Briar Falls, WV, behind and disappear forever. But Harley’s hometown has a strange way of swallowing people whole—call it a consequence of the low-level folk magic that has permeated its darker corners for generations. And now that Harley has returned, pent-up vengeance for his past crimes is about to come roaring back. Somebody has put a hex on him—and Harley has seven days before he dies in twisted, screaming agony.

To reverse it, Harley must find and kill his unseen enemy before their curse can reap its terrible end. But in Briar Falls, there’s no shortage of suspects—and Harley is coming for them all. If can’t have peace, at least he can have revenge.

Justin Jordan told the press;

I don’t get an opportunity to do as much crime as I want.. Wait, no, I mean I don’t get a chance to do as much crime FICTION as I would like, so getting to do a crime book that is also a horror book, my other favorite genre, has been awesome. And getting to set it in Appalachia, where I’m from, is just icing on the very brutal cake.”

The series is due out in February.