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Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York
Times best-selling author Joe Hill
(Heart-Shaped Box) creates an all-new
story of dark fantasy and wonder: Locke
& Key. Written by Hill and featuring
astounding artwork from Gabriel
Rodriguez (Clive Barker's The Great and
Secret Show, Beowulf), 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...
“Locke & Key is a supernatural
thriller about three kids who find
themselves the custodians of an unlikely
New England mansion called Keyhouse.
Within the house are secret doors with
transformative powers, the power to
fundamentally change a person’s
identity. There’s one door, when a kid
steps through it he’s turned into an old
person. Pass through another door, and a
boy will turn into a girl, while a girl
will be turned into a boy. There’s
another door that unlocks a closet,
filled with robes: an African robe, an
Asian robe. By putting the robe on, you
change your race. And they find
themselves pitted against a thing that
calls itself Dodge, who preys on
children with a weak sense of self.
Dodge has a habit of turning them
lethally dangerous: into Columbine
style-killers, or lynch mobs. There’s a
terrible door within Keyhouse that Dodge
would like to force open, and which my
heroes have to keep shut at all costs.
Ultimately it’s a kind of modern Grimm’s
fairy tale, about the way young people
discover and construct their own
identity.”
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