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Rat God #1
Eisner Award Hall of Fame inductee Richard Corben’s chilling story inspired by the works of H. P. Lovecraft finally collected as part of the new Richard Corben hardcover library. Terrible things stalk the forests outside Arkham in this chilling original tale from comics master Richard Corben! An arrogant city slicker on a quest to uncover the background of a young woman from the backwoods finds horrors beyond imagining, combining Lovecraftian mutations with Native American legends. This volume also includes a foreword by Bram Stoker Award–winning author Caitlín R. Kiernan (The Red Tree, The Drowning Girl) as well as both the original black and white and the color version of the long out-of-print “The Rats in the Walls,” a Lovecraft-penned tale adapted by Richard Corben! Collects Rat God #1–#5 Note: "The Rats in the Walls" was originally published as a black-and-white story in Skull Comics #5 and as a color story in From the Pit #1 and "Herbert West: Reanimator, Part 1: From the Dark" from Graphic Classics #4: H.P. Lovecraft
Characters: Clark Elwood, Damon Peck, Kito Hontz, Mag the Hag, Zachariah Peck, Zedon Peck
Creative roster
Adam Pruett (Digital Art Technician)
Beth Corben Reed (Colorist)
Blambot (Letterer)
Chuck Howitt (Assistant Editor)
Daniel Chabon (Editor)
Foster R. Kupbens (Assistant Editor)
José Villarrubia (Artist)
Mike Richardson (President, Publisher)
Nate Piekos (Letterer)
Patrick Satterfield (Designer)
Richard Corben (Artist, Color Assists, Script)
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