Nomination for horror comic ‘Something is Killing the Children’

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Written By Chris Well

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The fourth collected volume of the horror comic book series Something is Killing the Children has been nominated for the 2022 Bram Stoker Awards in the category of Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel. Created by writer James Tynion IV and artist Werther Dell’Edera, Something is Killing the Children Vol. 4 (BOOM! Studios) reveals the origin of Erica Slaughter, monster hunter.

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In Something is Killing the Children: When the children of Archer’s Peak begin to go missing, everything seems hopeless. Most children never return, but the ones that do have terrible stories—impossible stories of terrifying creatures that live in the shadows. Their only hope of finding and eliminating the threat is the arrival of a mysterious stranger, one who believes the children and claims to see what they can see. Her name is Erica Slaughter. She kills monsters. That is all she does, and she bears the cost because it MUST be done…

About Something is Killing the Children Vol. 4

Erica Slaughter went to hell and back in Archer’s Peak, but that may be nothing compared to the events that forged her at the House of Slaughter. What events brought Erica to the House of Slaughter? And what did she have to do to join the Order of St. George? Erica Slaughter’s origins are finally revealed in this volume of the Eisner Award-nominated series from GLAAD Award-winning author James Tynion IV (The Woods, Batman) and artist Werther Dell’Edera (Razorblades). Collects Something is Killing the Children #16-20.

Categories: Crime & Mystery, Horror

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About the creators

Comic book writer James Tynion IV is best known for his work on the Batman franchise at DC Comics, his DC Black Label series The Nice House on the Lake and his independent series Department of Truth and Something Is Killing the Children. In 2022, he won three Eisner Awards for his work. He is also a nine-time nominee for the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Comic Book, the most nominations of any writer, winning once in 2016.

Italian comic book artist Werther Dell’Edera provided interior art for the unreleased comic Aliens: Colonial Marines—Rising Threat for Dark Horse Comics, as well as Marvel Comics, and BOOM! Studios hit Something is Killing the Children.

Chris Well

Chris Well been a writer pretty much his entire life. (Well, since his childhood.) Over the years, he has worked in newspapers, magazines, radio, and books. He now is the chief of the website Monster Complex, celebrating monster stories in lit and pop culture. He also writes horror comedy fiction that embraces Universal Monsters, 1960s sitcoms, 1980s action movies, and the X-Files.

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