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Locke & Key: Welcome to Lovecraft
Series · 5 books · 2008

Books in series

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#2

Locke & Key

Welcome to Lovecraft #2

2008

Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) continues his all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder. Bode Locke, a six-year-old survivor of the tragedy that claimed his father, is about to get a crash course in death when he walks through an impossible door that separates his spirit from his body. The Ghost Door, though, is only one of Keyhouse's unlikely secrets…the other is the creature who lives in the house’s well, a girl who is not a girl—and who would kill to be set free.
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#3

Locke & Key

Welcome to Lovecraft #3

2008

Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who's the biggest psycho of them all? Could it be budding serial killer Sam Lesser? Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) continues his all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder, with Gabriel Rodriguez (Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show) handling art and cover duties.
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#4

Locke & Key

Welcome to Lovecraft #4

2008

Sam Lesser slaughters his way across America, moving steadily closer to Keyhouse and a final reckoning with the Locke family. His cross-country journey is mirrored by another, more harrowing odyssey, into the distorted territory of Sam's memories. Think you know what happened, the day Sam murdered Rendell Locke? Think again! Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) continues his all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder, with Gabriel Rodriguez (Clive Barker’s The Great and Secret Show) handling art duties.
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#5

Locke & Key

Welcome to Lovecraft #5

2008

The Locke family plays houseguest to Sam Lesser, just in from the West Coast, and ready to kill them one at a time to get what he came for: the key that will set his master loose. Acclaimed suspense novelist and New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill (Heart-Shaped Box) continues his all-new story of dark fantasy and wonder, with Gabriel Rodriguez handling art duties.
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#6

Locke & Key

Welcome to Lovecraft #6

2008

In the conclusion to the first Locke & Key story, by New York Times best-selling author Joe Hill and artistic wonder Gabriel Rodriguez, Sam Lesser has promised to kill each of the Locke children, one at a time, if he doesn’t get what he wants: the key to anywhere, and the key to the black door. Six-year-old Bode, though, has made a desperate bargain with the creature in the well house… set her free, and she’ll stop Sam herself…

Authors

Joe Hill
Joe Hill
Author · 171 books

Joe Hill's debut, Heart-Shaped Box, won the Bram Stoker Award for Best First Novel. His second, Horns, was made into a film freakfest starring Daniel Radcliffe. His other novels include NOS4A2, and his #1 New York Times Best-Seller, The Fireman... which was also the winner of a 2016 Goodreads Choice Award for Best Horror Novel. He writes short stories too. Some of them were gathered together in his prize-winning collection, 20th Century Ghosts. He won the Eisner Award for Best Writer for his long running comic book series, Locke & Key, co-created with illustrator and art wizard Gabriel Rodriguez. He lives in New Hampshire with a corgi named McMurtry after a certain beloved writer of cowboy tales. His next book, Strange Weather, a collection of novellas, storms into bookstores in October of 2017.

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