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Title | Welcome to Lovecraft
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Author | Joe Hill
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Ilustrator | Gabriel Rodríguez
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Publisher | IDW Publishing - 2011
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First Printing | IDW Publishing - 2008
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Title | Head Games
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Author | Joe Hill
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Ilustrator | Gabriel Rodríguez
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Publisher | IDW Publishing - 2011
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First Printing | IDW Publishing - 2009
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Title | Crown of Shadows
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Author | Joe Hill
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Ilustrator | Gabriel Rodríguez
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Publisher | IDW Publishing - 2016
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First Printing | IDW Publishing - 2010
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Title | Keys to the Kingdom
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Author | Joe Hill
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Ilustrator | Gabriel Rodríguez
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Publisher | IDW Publishing - 2016
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First Printing | IDW Publishing - 2011
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Title | Clockworks
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Author | Joe Hill
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Ilustrator | Gabriel Rodríguez
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Publisher | IDW Publishing - 2013
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First Printing | IDW Publishing - 2013
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Title | Alpha & Omega
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Author | Joe Hill
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Ilustrator | Gabriel Rodríguez
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Publisher | IDW Publishing - 2014
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First Printing | IDW Publishing - 2014
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Title | Heaven and Earth
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Author | Joe Hill
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Ilustrator | Gabriel Rodríguez
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Publisher | IDW Publishing - 2017
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First Printing | IDW Publishing - 2017
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Title | The Golden Age
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Author | Joe Hill
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Ilustrator | Gabriel Rodríguez
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Publisher | IDW Publishing - 2022
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First Printing | IDW Publishing - 2022
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Category | Horror
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Warnings | None
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Main Characters | Kinsey & Tyler & Bode Locke, Dodge
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Main Elements | Magic Houses
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Welcome to Lovecraft
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them. Home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...
Head Games
New York Times bestselling writer Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez, the creators behind the acclaimed Locke and Key: Welcome to Lovecraft, return with the next chapter in the ongoing tale, Head Games. Following a shocking death that dredges up memories of their father's murder, Kinsey and Tyler Locke are thrown into choppy emotional waters, and turn to their new friend, Zack Wells, for support, little suspecting Zack's dark secret. Meanwhile, six-year-old Bode Locke tries to puzzle out the secret of the head key, and Uncle Duncan is jarred into the past by a disturbingly familiar face. Open your mind - the head games are just getting started!
Crown of Shadows & Keys to the Kingdom
Named a "modern masterpiece" by The A.V. Club, the crticially-acclaimed series Locke & Key takes on new life in a reformatted hardcover collection. The Locke & Key Master Edition, Vol. 2 features the third and fourth L&K arcs, "Crown of Shadows" and "Keys to the Kingdom," with all-new cover art and design by co-creator Gabriel Rodriguez.
Clockworks
Locke & Key tells of Keyhouse, an unlikely New England mansion, with fantastic doors that transform all who dare to walk through them.... and home to a hate-filled and relentless creature that will not rest until it forces open the most terrible door of them all...! After the gruesome murder of their father, the Locke kids, Tyler, Kinsey and Bode move with their mother Nina to the ancestral family home, Keyhouse. They soon discover that the house is full of secrets when they start finding magical keys which hold impossible powers such as turning people into ghosts, or being able to erase someone's memories. They are not the only ones who know of the keys; a demonic creature known as Dodge is also after the keys, with the goal of opening the Black Door, which will allow the demons of hell to enter our world. The sprawling tale of the Locke family and their mastery of the 'whispering steel' thunders to new heights as the true history of the family is revealed to Tyler and Kinsey. Zack Wells assumes a new form, Tyler and Kinsey travel through time.
Tyler and Kinsey Locke have no idea that their now-deceased nemesis, Lucas "Dodge" Caravaggio, has taken over the body of their younger brother, Bode. With unrestricted access to Keyhouse, Dodge's ruthless quest to find the Omega Key and open the Black Door is almost complete. But Tyler and Kinsey have a dangerous key of their own — one that can unlock all the secrets of Keyhouse by opening a gateway to the past. The time has come for the Lockes to face theri own legacy and the darkness behind the Black Door. Because if they don't learn from their family history, they may be doomed to repeat it, and time is running out!
Colonel Adam Crais's minutemen are literally trapped between a rock and a hard place; in the first days of the Revolutionary War, they find themselves hiding beneath 120 feet of New England stone, with a full regiment of redcoats waiting for them in the daylight... and a door into hell in the cavern below. The black door is open, and it's up to a 16-year-old smith named Ben Locke to find a way to close it. The biggest mysteries of the Locke & Key series are resolved as Clockworks opens, not with a bang, but with the thunderous crash of English cannons.
Alpha & Omega
The shadows have never been darker and the end has never been closer. Turn the key and open the last door; it's time to say goodbye.
The final arc of New York Times bestselling Locke & Key comes to a thundrous and compelling conclusion.
An event not to be missed!
Collects Alpha #1-2 and Omega #1-5.
Heaven and Earth
Now a Netflix Original Series! Three never-before-collected stories set in the world of Keyhouse, showcasing the depths of depravity and heart-breaking heights that New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill and artist Gabriel Rodriguez have to offer.
This special deluxe release finally reprints the oft-requested and long-denied Eisner-winning one-shot, “Open the Moon”! Plus the other long-sold-out one-shot, “Grindhouse”! PLUS, the even more hard-to-find IDW 10th anniversary Locke & Key tale, “In the Can”! Extra covers, behind-the-scenes photos, and more make this a truly worthy addition to the series the A.V. Club called a "modern masterpiece."
The Golden Age
Unlock moments from Keyhouse's long history, expanding the saga of the Locke family in this collection of stories, which includes the epic crossover with DC's The Sandman Universe!
For two hundred years, the Locke family has watched over Keyhouse, a New England mansion where reality has come unhinged and shadows are known to walk on their own. Here they have guarded a collection of impossible keys, instruments capable of unlocking both unparalleled wonder and unimaginable evil.
Take a glimpse into the lives of Chamberlin Locke and his family in the early 20th century as they use the keys to fight battles big and small. From the killing fields of Europe during WWI and the depths of Hell, the Lockes are in a constant struggle to keep the dark forces of their world at bay.
Collects three standalone tales, "Small World," the Eisner-nominated "Open the Moon," and the never-before-seen "Face the Music," along with the 3-part ...In Pale Battalions Go... and the epic 80-page crossover with The Sandman Universe, Hell & Gone all from the co-creators of Locke & Key, Joe Hill and Gabriel Rodriguez!

Warning - this series has probably every possible trigger (rape, abuse, torture, you name it, its probably there) and its not shy about being graphic about it.
My initial reaction was that this series was nothing at all like I expected it to be.
1 - It takes place in a town called Lovecraft but has absolutely nothing to do with Lovecraft lore
2 - The story involves kids, figured it be a kind of Lovecraft-lite. Now it does have some classic features of stories like Narnia, or the House with a Clock in the Walls, or Spiderwick. The kind of tale where even the adults that once knew all this stuff as kids, will have forgotten it and can no longer see it even when its right in front of them. However, its definitely not for kids.
3 - The first volume had monsters in it, but they were human monsters. So between being in the head of a crazed serial killer, and being inside the head of the kids who lost their father and had to do some extreme things to protect themselves, a mother who turns to drink...man it was dark. Its got every kind of trigger in it, and it's a graphical novel remember, you can see it all.
In retrospect maybe I should have realized what I was getting into. I read NOS4R2 by Joe Hill, and that was some crazy mind messing stuff. A few days agot I read Wraith, since its a prequel to NOS4R2 and well...go see my review. Stephen King might be Joe Hill's father, but the son really cranks the psychological horror up a few notches. You don't want to live in Joe Hill's head, that's for sure, there's some seriously twisted stuff in there.
But by the second volume, the human monster has been dealt with (maybe?) and that leaves another...human (?) monster...only he's also something other. He's creepy as heck, but he's at least evil, not just some poor kid who went over the deep end. You know, your normal supernatural villain you don't need to be *that* scared of because he's not real, unlike the other guy who totally could be.
in the second volume we also get all the siblings in on the magic key thing, mainly by having the youngest boy stick the key in the back of head and pop it open...which was also creepy as heck. People can look inside and pull things out or put things in, and the facial expression on the people having their heads poked around in was just darn disturbing. And there's more, while you are looking in another person's head, you will also see that other person out of the corner of your eye looking in alongside you...who comes up with this stuff (kinda loved that though, so mind-warpingly freaky). Also kinda loved the creatures they find in the various minds they rifle through, like a kid's memory of a scary person becomes this kind of unrecognizable caricature, as one character points out, memories are unreliable.
And I have to wonder...who is the dude that created these keys? Some are cool and kind of fun but others are rather messed up. In fact there are so many keys, and so many battles that some scenes are only as long as a single page. Let's just say the Locke kids are dealing with a lot. Their father is dead, their mother is an alchoholic and they have to battle evil every weekend, while still surviving high school!
This may not be Lovecraft, but it is Lovecraft level weird. And eventually it is supposed to crossover with Sandman (which is why I discovered this series in the first place), certainly no leap of the imagination needed to picture opening a door into Dream, you can go everywhere else after all.
And finally in the last two volumes there is a little Lovecraft, just the words the characters shout out. Must admit I want from finding the books too disturbing at the start to, well its all still disturbing in that the worst possible things happen to these poor kids and they have to deal with it, but I got really invested in the story, the history of the keys and who was going to survive and who wasn't. Definitely difficult to read but I found it to be worth it. There's still two additional volumes to go, but the story ends with book 6.
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