Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft by Joe Hill, Artwork by Gabriel Rodriguez

Locke and Key:Welcome to Lovecraft
by Joe Hill & Gabriel Rodriguez
$15.00

Hardcover: 152 pages

Publisher: IDW Publishing (September 24, 2008)

ISBN-10: 1600102379

ISBN-13: 978-1600102370

Annotation/Flashtalk:

What would you do if you found a secret door that once you passed through it you turned into a ghost and were able to spy on the rest of your family? What if you heard a voice coming from the bottom of a well?

Summary:

When their father is brutally murdered the Locke family moves in with their uncle at Keyhouse.  Tyler, the older brother, is sullen and brooding. Kinsey, the middle child, is trying to assimilate.  Nina, their mother, is slowly trying to drink her pain and loss away.  Bode, the youngest, is having more adventures than Tyler and Kinsey combined.  Bode has discovered a spirit at the bottom of the well, who he visits with and talks to.  He’s also found a secret door at Keyhouse that when he goes through it he becomes a ghost and can float around the house and spy on his family. 

Bode’s friendship with the spirit in the well turns dangerous when the well becomes a link to the prison cell that holds his father’s killer.  When Sam comes through the portal and tortures Bode’s family again, someone must rescue the family.  In the process, one of the special keys at Keyhouse is located and it’s used to open a special door that allows the owner to change their appearance; so little does the family know that their new found pal Zach is really Echo, the ghost from the well. 

Genre/Subgenre: Graphic Novel/Horror

Evaluation: 3-stars.